This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak with Bishop Michael Martin, O.F.M. Conv., of the Diocese of Charlotte. Bishop Martin sparked headlines in 2025 when a document leaked with plans to restrict the Latin Mass and other liturgical practices in his diocese.
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Jesuit priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees as border dynamics change
Over the past five years at the U.S.-Mexico border, Brian Strassburger, S.J., has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters to celebrating Mass with detained and deported migrants.
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis
“Archbishop Fulton Sheen was one of the greatest voices of evangelization in the Church and the world in the 20th century,” Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria said.
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On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Oscar Romero
Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in the United States, speaking against war-making and mass deportation.
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Bishop Seitz urges ICE agents not to follow illegal deportation orders
In a pastoral letter on March 15, Bishop Mark Seitz urged immigration enforcement agents not to follow illegal orders and denounced the “grave moral evil” of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
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Review: Seeking a healthy planet and a healthy church
In Christina Rivera’s new collection, we wander through waves of connections, an ebb and flow carrying us between climate change, the sixth extinction, motherhood, all kinds of oceans and personal challenges—including the writer’s desire to leave the Catholic Church she was raised in.
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Pope Leo accepts resignation of US bishop arrested for alleged financial crimes
Bishop Emanuel Shaleta pleaded not guilty to 17 felony charges during his arraignment in court in California on Monday. He is accused of embezzling $270,000 from the St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon.
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Bishop Seitz: The border is everywhere now
As the bishop of El Paso, I am often asked to offer my view of the current situation at the border. In addressing that important issue, I try to bring light on some deeper issues that I believe are at stake in the contemporary debate on immigration in our country and are urgent for our consideration.
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Cardinals McElroy and Cupich denounce Iran war: ‘War now has become a spectator sport.’
“A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game—it’s sickening,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said.
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Pope Leo appoints Archbishop Caccia as nuncio to the United States
Archbishop Caccia’s appointment comes at a turbulent time in world affairs, as the United States and Israel wage war against Iran—a conflict now in its eighth day that appears to be expanding.