Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.
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Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Leo tells border bishop: The American church needs ‘to be united’ on migration
“You stand with me, and I stand with you,” Pope Leo told El Paso’s Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ committee on migration, when he met him and a U.S. delegation in the Vatican today.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
After the government shutdown ends, will the U.S. be heading back to the future on health care?
Sister Mary Haddad, head of the Catholic Health Association, on the precarious state of U.S. health care—before and after the shutdown
Posted inDispatches
A Catholic health nonprofit in Harlem prepares for an ICE crackdown
“The fear has been very great in our community,” Lucia Aguilar, L.S.A.’s director of family support services, said. The agency offers online resources for people with irregular residency to prepare for an encounter with ICE. “We want our families to be ready for the worst-case scenario.”
Posted inOf Many Things
Pro-choice politicians, Catholic teaching and the lessons we still can’t learn
The church had a fight over an award. But did anyone learn anything?
Posted inPodcasts
Cardinal Cupich, Sen. Durbin and Pope Leo’s pro-life comments, explained
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak with Sam Sawyer, S.J., to discuss the recent controversy surrounding Cardinal Cupich’s decision to present Senator Durbin with a “lifetime achievement award” for his work in defense of migrants.
Posted inShort Take
Pope Leo is finding his voice on migration
Pope Leo XIV has inherited a migration crisis of historic proportions. As the leader of the universal church, he stands as one of the few global leaders able and willing to speak out in defense of the migrant.
Posted inFaith in Focus
How writing about migrant farmworkers in the U.S. changed this Irish farmer’s faith
I didn’t travel to the United States to find God. I went to write about farm workers. But in the orchards and onion fields, and in a quiet church where I wept for all the injustices I had seen—God found me.
Posted inNews
Pope Leo weighs in on controversy over Cardinal Cupich giving Sen. Durbin immigration award
“They are very complex issues,” Pope Leo said, and “I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them.”
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Chicago archdiocese’s plan to award Senator Durbin for immigration work meets pushback over abortion
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., in whose diocese Senator Dick Durbin resides, said he was “shocked” by the announcement due to Durbin’s public position on abortion.