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A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Feb. 12 that allows Catholics to enter an ICE facility on Ash Wednesday to provide ashes and holy Communion.

A federal judge cited two Gospel verses in his order releasing five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from a Texas family detention center.

Catholics in Minneapolis are wrestling with sorrow, anger, fear and faith as they navigate tensions between federal and local authorities on immigration.

President Donald Trump met with Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Jan. 12 at the White House.

Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda is continuing his call for prayers a woman was pronounced dead following a shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis Jan. 7.

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, urged the U.S. bishops Nov. 11 to take further steps to show solidarity with migrants at their annual fall assembly.

The U.S.-Mexican bishops’ 2003 statement, “Strangers No Longer,” takes up “some principles that can guide people doing public policy.”

Human dignity comes “not from government, but from our loving God,” Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Oregon, declared in a Nov. 8 statement.

The same week President Donald Trump spoke at a hearing of the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission in Washington, a key Catholic bishop said some of his immigration policies …

Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrendered to immigration authorities in Baltimore Aug. 25 and faces possible deportation to Uganda, a country to which he has no ties.