Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about escalating deportations.
Immigration
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Republicans champion religious freedom—but not for detained migrants
It is difficult to take the White House’s commitment to religious freedom seriously when CBS News reported that the U.S. government holds more than 59,000 people in immigration detention with uncertain access to chaplains and ministers.
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How Americans lost our trust in government—and how we can rebuild it
The widespread collapse of social trust has led to a summons to work for its restoration in a variety of significant institutions.
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Archbishop Wenski: Trump secured the border. It’s time for immigration reform—not ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’
“Congress should do something — and Catholics should encourage their congresspeople to intervene, and to provide something more than just an enforcement-only approach to the challenges of immigration.”
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Pope Leo offers prayers after shipwreck of migrant boat off Yemen
As emergency workers searched for survivors and tried to recuperate the bodies of the dead, Pope Leo XIV offered his prayers for people impacted by the latest shipwreck of a migrant boat off the coast of Yemen.
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Mass celebrated at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for detained Catholic migrants
The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
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Faith leaders hope bill will stop the loss of thousands of foreign-born clergy serving US communities
“Unless there is a change to current practice, our community is slowly being strangled,” said the Rev. Aaron Wessman, vicar general and director of formation for the Glenmary Home Missioners, a small Catholic order ministering in rural America.
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Archbishop Gomez and LA business leaders start fund to help families affected by ICE raids
Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez was one of several community leaders who joined to open the Family Assistance Program, aiding those affected by recent ICE raids.
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Pope Leo: Catholic migrants are ‘a true divine blessing’ to the churches that receive them
On Friday, Pope Leo XIV issued a statement on the theme “Migrants, missionaries of hope.”
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Archbishop Pérez, son of migrants, tells migrants: ‘You are not alone’
The archbishop assured migrants in a pastoral letter that “the Church is a community of faith, and the divine person of Christ, who was forced to flee his homeland as a child, holds you in his compassionate arms.”