Immigrants

More than 1 in 6 Catholics are either vulnerable to deportation themselves or could see a family member deported, barring law or policy changes.

Members of the Chicago-based Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership gave him an album containing the items when they met with the pope Oct. 28.

The Church’s “essential ministry” is “to accompany the least of these, … to care for the oppressed, to defend the defenseless, to speak for the voiceless.”

“The inhumanity and massiveness of these border fortifications reminded me of the Berlin Wall,” a German archbishop said after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border.

“My journey reminds me that we are all God’s children and that we need one another as we walk together toward eternal life.”

“Only with Christ’s help and by working together will we have a nation under God with liberty and justice for all,” Archbishop Joe S. Vásquez said.

The Diocese of El Paso has shut down its long-running legal aid ministry to unaccompanied child migrants, as the Trump administration withholds almost $1 million in funding for work already …

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

In many ways, Father Michael J. McGivney was just one more of that band of hardworking Irish-American priests who spent themselves building up the church in America in the latter …

The church is at her best when she stands with those in the margins, defending the dignity of every human person and working tirelessly for justice.