Amid immigration raids and emptying pews, the Nashville diocese is reminding faithful that they are not required to attend Mass if they fear for their well-being, according to the church’s own teaching and canon law.
Immigration
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pope Leo XIV faces a difficult challenge on migration. He might be up to the task.
An early signal that Leo XIV will build upon Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants could show that the church’s efforts are not tied to one pope but to 2,000 years of Catholic teaching.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
‘We are not animals, Father’: Jesuit superior general on the rights of migrants
So many who work today with migrants around the world have observed a human family where millions of people are on the move, suffering and persecuted. How can we best serve migrants in our social and intellectual apostolates?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In Germany, the Catholic Church grapples with the growing appeal of the far-right AfD
German Catholic bishops say that even where the party has not tipped into extremism, it has failed to reform itself of such tendencies. They charge that a nationalism incompatible with Christianity has become the AfD’s animating ideology.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Catholics, we must be more attentive to the poor and vulnerable who show up in our parishes
As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Bishop Menjivar: Migrants and refugees are living Christ’s Passion today
The church remembers Christ’s death on a cross in a spiritual and sacramental way during Holy Week, but some people actually experience the Passion in a tangible and personal way in their very lives.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The U.S. bishops have stopped resettling refugees in the Trump era. What does the future hold?
To stop the important work of refugee resettlement is to lose part of the church’s identity in the United States.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Trump’s attacks on immigrants hurt all Americans—and our democracy
The administration’s attacks on immigrants imperil the rights and freedom of all Americans.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Report: 10 million Christians in US at risk of mass deportation
A joint Catholic-Evangelical report found that an overwhelming majority of people impacted by the Trump administration’s mass deportations are Christian.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics take a stand against Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant actions at the U.S. border
As people of faith, we must defend migrants and refugees at a time when the state is increasingly moving to dehumanize them.