“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
Immigration
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Bishop Seitz previews new plan for U.S. bishops to support immigrants: ‘Statements alone are not enough’
“As pastors devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we know statements alone are not enough,” Bishop Seitz told his brother bishops in Baltimore.
Posted inEditorials
The editors: Safe borders do not require terror tactics from ICE
When did the notion that we should protect our borders and regulate immigration devolve into a determination to unleash anonymous masked agents pulling people from cars, and to publicly celebrate the creation of true hellholes like the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility?
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
More immigrants are dying in ICE detention
An effort to dehumanize immigrant people has contributed to federal indifference as the death toll among ICE detainees spikes this year.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Leo says ICE should allow ‘pastoral workers’ to bring detained migrants Communion
Leaving Castel Gandolfo this evening, Nov. 4, Pope Leo XIV told reporters that he “would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs” of detained migrants.
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U.S. bishops tied to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission voice criticism of immigrant detention
Bishops Robert Barron and Kevin Rhoades have voiced criticism of the administration, arguing immigrants detained by ICE should have access to Communion.
Posted inFaith in Focus
JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.
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ICE bars Chicago bishop from giving detained Catholics Communion on All Saints
A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second time in three weeks from bringing the Eucharist to those being held at an immigration detention center just west of Chicago on the feast of All Saints.
Posted inDispatches
Catholics around the nation take a stand against Trump mass deportation policy
Following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Catholics around the country have been organizing prayerful demonstrations for immigration justice.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
Archbishop Wenski says Trump should ‘take a victory lap’ on border control and ‘pivot’ from mass deportation
Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski says immigration is not a threat, but an opportunity, calling for Trump to pivot away from his mass deportation plans.