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Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof
“I’ve had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they’re citizens. That’s not America,” Cardinal Cupich said.
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Donald Trump and the Dictator Dynamic
Unchecked power destroys the souls of individuals and of nations. As an American who has served as a bishop in Latin America for 13 years, I have watched it happen over and over again.
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The Moral Resistance to Trump’s Politics of Rage
As the Trump administration demeans American life and liberty, immigration and pro-life activists provide a light in the darkness.
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Jesuits struggle with fallout from Trump policies on aid, immigration and deportation
Trump administration policies on humanitarian aid, immigration and mass deportation “have human afterlives, and they end up affecting communities; they end up affecting lives,” says Marco Gómez, S.J., the country director of Fe y Alegría in Panama. “These decisions, taken far away, are affecting concrete and real people.”
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David French on Christianity and the MAGA movement
This week on a special episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Sam Sawyer, S.J., president and editor in chief of America, have a conversation with David French, political commentator and opinion columnist at The New York Times, about the complex relationship between Christianity and politics during the Trump administration.
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Is the Vatican considering Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ invitation?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Junno Arocho Esteves, international correspondent for OSV News, joins host Colleen Dulle to explain what factors the Vatican is likely weighing in its decision-making on whether or not to join the “Board of Peace.”
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Vatican secretary of state: Pope Leo evaluating Trump’s invitation to join Board of Peace
“I believe I read that Italy is also considering whether or not to join,” Cardinal Parolin said, according to Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference. “We too have received this invitation: the pope has received the invitation, and we are considering what to do; we are looking into it.”
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Top Vatican official calls violence in Minneapolis ‘unacceptable’
Cardinal Pietro Parolin urges restraint by federal agents as Catholic bishops in the United States criticize immigration enforcement tactics.
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As the son of a cop who took a costly stand, I can say to ICE agents: You can say no.
My father was a New York police officer. When he was ordered to raid gay bars and arrest patrons, he decided he could not do it.