Camillo Barone

Even doing laundry is a risk for many recently arrived Venezuelans on Chicago's South Side, where ICE patrols have reshaped daily life. One small parish offers families support.

More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration officials.

 Prelate also views preventing access to detainees as a serious pastoral and constitutional concern as well as a matter of religious freedom. 
 

Kerry Alys Robinson reflected on Catholic Charities USA's 115th anniversary gathering in Puerto Rico, Pope Leo's first apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te and how CCUSA is navigating the moral demands of the present.

In 2025, rapid changes to federal immigration policy have unsettled long-established processes and forced organizations like the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, to adapt quickly.

A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.

Founded nearly 50 years ago, the nonprofit ministry aims to cultivate what it calls "communion, participation, and mission," training lay leaders while stressing the practical application of Catholic social teaching.

In the people Catholic Charities serves, J. Antonio Fernández sees a reflection of his own immigrant journey. That empathy informs his work as he assumes leadership in New York during a period of financial uncertainty.

The UK-based anti-landmines group was honored with the 2025 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest annual humanitarian award for nonprofits.

As the popemobile rolled through St. Peter's Square Sept. 24, the choir from New York's Church of St. Paul the Apostle performed an original hymn for Pope Leo XIV. Its words were drawn from the pope's inaugural homily.

Sen. Dick Durbin will not accept a Catholic award recognizing his immigration work, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich said Sept. 30. The announcement follows objections from some bishops over Durbin's support for abortion rights.

A new study found that priests who approve of Pope Francis are more likely to adopt a pastoral approach to LGBTQ+ Catholics. Could the same dynamic take hold under Pope Leo?

Pedro Bismarck Chau was 16 when he came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant in 1984. He was ordained as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J.,  on Sept. 8.

The pontiff said he hoped to visit the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where his predecessor first traveled as pontiff, "soon, in person."

"They're safe. They're upset, but they're safe": Parents of children who survived the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church spoke about finding their kids at the scene Aug. 27 in Minneapolis.

Law enforcement officials identified the assailant in the shooting at Annunciation Church as Robin Westman, a 23-year-old Minneapolis resident who left behind a racist and antisemitic manifesto on social media.

 Shooting at the opening Mass for Annunciation Catholic School in south Minneapolis, also wounds 17. The assailant died by suicide behind the church, police said. 

 Italian daily newspaper reports that Augustinian friars are expected to join Leo when he moves into the papal apartment so that he can continue the communal life of his religious order.

An evacuation order has been issued for the Gaza City neighborhood that is home to the area's only Catholic church, the parish priest Fr. Gabriel Romanelli told media agencies.

At a center for Holocaust education in July, Catholic teachers gathered to confront the church's complicity in antisemitism, and explore how to help heal the historical rupture between Catholics and Jews.