President Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Vatican has defended many of the administration’s foreign aid cuts at a Senate hearing, even while saying Catholic charitable groups are well-equipped to deliver such aid efficiently.
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U.S. bishops will cease refugee resettlement work with government after Trump funding freeze
The U.S.C.C.B. said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the government in those areas became “untenable.”
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Report: 10 million Christians in US at risk of mass deportation
A joint Catholic-Evangelical report found that an overwhelming majority of people impacted by the Trump administration’s mass deportations are Christian.
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Catholics take a stand against Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant actions at the U.S. border
As people of faith, we must defend migrants and refugees at a time when the state is increasingly moving to dehumanize them.
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How Mexico’s president is handling an unpredictable Trump—and gaining popularity
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s deft handling of the mercurial U.S. president has sent her approval rating soaring, reaching 85 percent in the latest survey from the newspaper El Financiero.
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Catholic Relief Services carries on after Elon Musk’s takedown of USAID
Musk’s federal takeover produced significant collateral damage. Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. church’s global humanitarian relief and development agency, had been U.S.A.I.D.’s biggest faith-based international partner.
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Making a Nation of Immigrants Great Again
Supporting immigrants in this country is about American greatness because American greatness has always depended on immigration.
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JD Vance, Ukraine and the nihilism of MAGA
There is a cynical strain of MAGA, a mirror of the deconstructivism of the left, which jeers at woke hypocrisy but is not for much of anything—certainly not anything requiring faith or sacrifice.
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Hundreds join El Paso bishop’s protest against migrant mass deportation, asylum bans
Bishop Mark Seitz led a March 24 demonstration and prayer vigil to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
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How Trump’s deportations are testing the boundaries of presidential authority
“Trump [is] flexing his power and trying to push the law into areas that have not been tested before…and the challenge really is not to the people affected but to the rule of law itself.”