Federal documents show that the U.S. government has received more than 4,500 complaints over the last four years alleging that children who are under government custody because of immigration matters faced sexual abuse.

Critics contend the government started breaking up immigrant families as far back as 2017 and is still doing so.

To Bishop Mark Seitz the real emergency is humanitarian—a matter of deciding how best to care for the people coming to the border. “That should concern us,” he said. “This is a group of very vulnerable people.”

A group of city commissioners voted to remove from a building a popular Catholic-administered center run by Sister Norma Pimentel.

A new Catholic initiative connects volunteers with undocumented members of the community who need support.