Bishop Mark J. Seitz

The U.S. House of Representatives began its August recess as both chambers faced a looming Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government and avoid another shutdown. 

“If we can’t pay our staff, then there’s nobody to provide services. That is our most significant obligation, salaries and benefits.”

Five Catholic bishops from the United States-Mexico border region led a day of pastoral accompaniment in Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico.

Erecting “a symbol of division in the shadow of Christ runs contrary to the very person of Christ,” who gathers people of all backgrounds ” to himself.”

A New Mexico diocese says Trump administration plans to seize part of Mount Cristo Rey for a border wall violates Catholic religious liberty in a legal filing.

On March 24, the feast day of St. Óscar Romero, hundreds joined in a march and vigil calling to end mass deportations and mass detention in El Paso, Texas.

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, called for an end to mass deportation and redoubled efforts to show solidarity with those affected by that policy in a new …

The Diocese of El Paso, Texas, filed for bankruptcy March 6, citing financial strain from claims related to sexual abuse alleged to have occurred decades prior.

A group of U.S. bishops, most from the U.S.-Mexico border region, issued a statement hours before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

OneLife LA, Archbishop Gomez said, is “a religious movement, a stirring of the heart and conscience. A movement of the Spirit.”