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(OSV News) — A federal judge in Maryland ruled Aug. 7 the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born in the U.S. to parents without legal status or temporary …

Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, called on every person to “pray for the courage to do the right thing” amid the immigration crisis.

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“Their courage and tenacity bear heroic testimony to a faith that sees beyond what our eyes can see,” the pope said.

Catholic reaction to the “Big Beautiful Bill” immigration proposals and on-the-ground developments has walked a careful line between compliance and concern.

Bishop Michael M. Pham, who fled Vietnam as a refugee in 1980, and his auxiliary bishops joined a June 20, 2025, clergy visit to immigration court in San Diego.

Catholic advocates were “disturbed” by a Supreme Court order allowing the Trump administration to end temporary deportation protections for Venezuelans.

ROME (OSV News) — Not long after Pope Francis’ election in 2013, media pundits and faithful wondered and speculated what countries he would visit as pope. Naturally, many assumed the …

The U.S. bishops told congressional lawmakers they support a bipartisan bill to ease some immigration restrictions on religious workers from other countries.

Washington’s new Cardinal Robert W. McElroy grappled with the need to send a clear moral message on the dignity of migrants at an event in the nation’s capital.