ICE enforcement

Sister Leticia said when she asked the ICE agents, “can I go to Mass; can I just attend Mass, can I receive Communion?’, the answer was ‘no.'”

“Folks like Pope Leo and the broader Catholic community know that this is what it means to put our faith in action for solidarity and for human dignity.”

“Acts that diminish or disregard the dignity of any person or group of people should never be normalized in our society,” say Bishops Garcia and Cahill in a statement issued …

With current ICE enforcement tactics, “we are witnessing an increasingly fearful and volatile environment that puts lives and communities at greater risk.”

Sister Leticia was detained as she walked to Our Lady of Sorrows Church in McAllen, where she serves as an extraordinary minister of holy Communion.

“As we saw the violence escalate at Delaney Hall since Memorial Day, the archdiocese wanted to have a prayerful, peaceful presence there.”

“We show that heightened ICE activity is harming the labor market overall, and we find no evidence that it is benefiting U.S.-born workers.”

“The goal here today is to get us energized to take the next steps as dioceses, parishes, religious congregations or as groups of Catholic organizations.”

“The new Immigration and Customs Enforcement measures have been overcrowding U.S. facilities, so they now need to send some deportees to other countries.”

Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray played a key role in drafting Vatican II’s landmark Declaration on Religious Freedom, “Dignitatis Humanae,” in 1965.