“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
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New USCCB president Coakley talks immigration, Viganò criticism and Pope Leo
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected as the next president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Bishop Seitz previews new plan for U.S. bishops to support immigrants: ‘Statements alone are not enough’
“As pastors devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we know statements alone are not enough,” Bishop Seitz told his brother bishops in Baltimore.
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Archbishop Coakley, Bishop Flores elected president and vice president of USCCB
The 2025 elections were notable because they marked the first leadership change at the conference since the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff.
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U.S. Catholics are facing an authoritarian threat. The church has been here before.
The Catholic Church in the United States today is facing a crucial test. Will Catholic leadership accommodate and adapt itself to authoritarian power? Or will it offer leadership to give hope, oppose authoritarian abuses and defend human freedom?
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Bishop Perry on on voting rights and the Catholic Church’s call to justice
As the Supreme Court revisits the Voting Rights Act, we remember that the journey to that decision was long and hard. Black Americans labored tirelessly for civil rights, including the right to vote—a right that had been systematically denied.
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ICE bars Chicago bishop from giving detained Catholics Communion on All Saints
A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second time in three weeks from bringing the Eucharist to those being held at an immigration detention center just west of Chicago on the feast of All Saints.
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Federal judge strikes Biden-era rule including gender identity in sex discrimination prohibition
Attorney General Lynn Fitch argued in an Oct. 23 statement, “The Biden administration attempted to import its radical theories on gender identity into ObamaCare, forcing healthcare providers to perform surgeries or prescribe drugs even if it violated their best medical judgment.”
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Caribbean bishops raise concern over Trump’s military buildup in the region
“The presence of warships and the disruption of marine livelihoods within our Caribbean waters represent real and immediate threats to regional stability and to the welfare of our nations,” the region’s bishops said.
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Cardinal Burke celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
In the presence of hundreds of priests and with lay faithful packed into the pews and standing along the walls, U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke celebrated the traditional Latin Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.