Critics warned Secretary Pompeo’s religious freedom agenda would reverse 200 years of progress on human rights. But his commission has issued a consensus document.
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After Supreme Court win, what’s next for Dreamers?
The Supreme Court has given a reprieve to DACA recipients worried about deportation. But J.D. Long-García reports that they will not rest until they secure a pathway to citizenship.
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Sister Helen Prejean: Stop the federal killings
What is the moral imperative behind the government’s urgency to hasten the death of its citizens?
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The Editors: Trump’s latest effort to restrict asylum seekers will not restore America’s greatness
The faithful must stand against measures that dehumanize asylum seekers and welcome immigrants among us.
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Trump and López Obrador forge a new friendship but neglect asylum seekers
President Trump seemed to acknowledge the problematic beginning of his relationship with President López Obrador when he said their friendship developed “against all odds.”
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Poll: Trump trails Biden among Catholic voters (but keeps his lead with white Catholics)
Broken down between white and Hispanic Catholics, the numbers show a stark divide.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Why protesting injustice is a fundamentally Christian act
Our fidelity to Christ and his body the church should have less to do with becoming an aggrieved church of fire damage than becoming a compassionate church of kinship with the broken.
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Supreme Court denies asylum seekers the right to appeal deportation rulings
Today’s court decision removes any judicial check on the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track the deportations of asylum seekers who cannot show strong evidence of persecution in their home countries.
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In an interview with EWTN, Trump hails ‘tremendous letter of support from the Catholic Church’
Few questions dealt directly with Catholicism, but host Raymond Arroyo did ask the president about a letter written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
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President Trump says he will renew effort to end DACA protections
Trump denounced the high court’s ruling that the administration improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017.