“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.
Immigration
Posted inDispatches
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.
Posted inNews
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.
Posted inNews
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.”
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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.
Posted inNews
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.