The Trump administration’s recent attacks on the resources and structures that serve the poor and on the religious institutions that serve the most vulnerable are unprecedented in their scale, pace and human impact.
Donald Trump
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Report: How Jesuit Refugee Service is responding to the Trump foreign aid freeze
Halting the work of U.S.A.I.D. “will kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Vatican secretary of state: Palestinians must not be deported from Gaza
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, spoke out against President Donald Trump’s proposal to deport more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
The bishops, Trump and why we can’t predict the future of politics
We cannot wish away reality with counterfactual speculation–nor should we try.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Faith groups sued the Trump administration for its immigration policies. Church leaders should support them.
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations have sued the Trump administration’s to stop ICE agents from making arrests in churches. Solidarity requires us to do more to help the vulnerable.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration
Pope Francis’s letter poses an implicit question to the whole church in the United States: Will we subject our political debates on immigration to the scrutiny of the Gospel or not?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Faith groups sue over Trump administration policy to permit ICE arrests at churches
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups filed a federal lawsuit to block a Trump policy allowing ICE agents to make arrests in places of worship.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis to U.S. Catholic bishops: Oppose mass deportations
The letter also stated that Francis disagrees with identifying the illegal status of migrants with criminality, and called on the bishops “to walk together” and defend the human dignity of the migrants in their country.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We can be proud of the work of Catholic Relief Services, as Catholics—and as Americans
I cannot defend every entity that receives funding from U.S.A.I.D. I cannot even speak on behalf of C.R.S. But I can tell you what I saw when I traveled overseas to report on their work.
Posted inFaith, News
Vatican cardinal outraged at Trump’s ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die
Cardinal Michael Czerny, Pope Francis’ point-man on migration and development, has urged the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump to remember Christian principles about caring for others.