Illegal immigration is being treated as a sacrilege because it seems to violate something that has been made into an idol: the status and the security of being American.
Immigration
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How Catholics in Scranton are standing with our immigrant neighbors—and responding to ICE actions
Public witness, especially in a climate of fear and misrepresentation about our immigrant neighbors, has its own distinct value.
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Catholic food pantries adjust Thanksgiving deliveries to ICE deportation realities
As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach and ICE deportation efforts continue, Catholic parish food pantries are adapting to make sure immigrant community members have all they need to celebrate the holidays when they are afraid to leave their homes.
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Chicago Catholic coalition sues ICE over denial of holy Communion, pastoral care
A group of clergy and religious, and a Catholic social justice organization filed a lawsuit Nov. 19 against the Trump administration over being barred from bringing holy Communion and pastoral care to detainees at an immigration processing center just west of Chicago.
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North Carolina’s Catholic response to the ICE immigration crackdown
As an ICE campaign continues in Charlotte, local Catholic parishes respond and mass attendance plummets.
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Pope Leo backs U.S. bishops in opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly backed U.S. bishops who condemned the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and urged the American people to listen to them and treat migrants humanely.
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Trump’s border czar calls bishops ‘wrong’ on immigration: ‘Spend time fixing the Catholic Church’
“I’m saying it not only as a border czar, but I’m also saying this as a Catholic, I think they need to spend time fixing the Catholic Church,” Tom Homan said after the bishops issued a rare group statement on immigration.
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Inside a public witness and prayer for immigrants at a New York City courthouse
The procession lasted more than 90 minutes as temperatures dropped and hail gave way to bursts of freezing rain. Marchers, bundled in scarves and gloves, pressed on, walking past security officers who observed in silence from behind metal barricades.
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U.S. bishops release rare message on Trump’s immigration crackdown in show of ‘fundamental unity’
The message was approved by the vast majority of voting bishops and was met with a standing ovation.
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Read: U.S. Bishops’ full statement on immigration and opposing mass deportation
“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.”