As people of faith, we must defend migrants and refugees at a time when the state is increasingly moving to dehumanize them.
Donald Trump
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Making a Nation of Immigrants Great Again
Supporting immigrants in this country is about American greatness because American greatness has always depended on immigration.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
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.
Posted inFaith, News
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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
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.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Trump is not a king. Immigrants are not invaders.
Donald Trump’s standoff with a federal judge over deportations is pushing the country toward a constitutional crisis.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
This Lent, I’m fasting to focus my prayers on people living with AIDS
I am well aware of the dangers of “raising awareness” and making a show of one’s fasting. But I am telling people about this publicly so that they can consider whether Pepfar is something they would like to fast over.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Texas border bishop announces march and vigil protesting Trump mass deportations
“The threat of mass deportations is untenable and immoral and demands a credible response,” Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, wrote in an open letter to “all people of faith and everyone committed to the common good.”