Fiona Murphy

In a new video series, RNS goes behind the front lines of the immigration crisis. Episode 1 is about Sr. Susan Francois, who bears witness and offers 'radical hospitality' to family members and friends visiting immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall.

In the looksmaxxing community, physical transformation is treated as a moral imperative, one obtainable by persistent self-denial and the pursuit of an ideal form. To some, the ethos resembles a kind of inverted asceticism: a life structured around sacrifice and perfection, not to a higher power, but to the self.

Matthew LaBanca's case is one of at least 80 New Ways Ministry has tracked involving employment disputes since 2007 tied to LGBTQ+ issues within Catholic institutions.

Archbishop-designate James Golka, bishop of Colorado Springs since 2021, has the potential to unify Denver's 600,000 Catholics. He will be installed March 25.

"There simply isn’t enough capacity even for the local community. It's much harder with a population that has been abandoned in places that are extremely difficult," said Karen Perez, the country director for Jesuit Refugee Service in Mexico.

Some Christian users said they planned to stop using Hallow because of its partnership with Carlson, while others praised the collaboration. Multiple users called for boycotts of the app and other sponsors.

Bishop Michael Martin's letter has exposed divisions over liturgical authority, leadership style and worship practices. The debate has also played out online, showing how social media has amplified church disputes.

Faith leaders and religious advocates in New Jersey are calling for accountability and compassion following the death of a 41-year-old Haitian man after a reported medical emergency while he was detained at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention facility in Newark.

Kate Hennessy, the Catholic Worker co-founder's granddaughter, said Day is a model for her fellow believers "to grasp faith and trust with all we have, even if it is by our bleeding fingertips."

Westley S. is a 22-year-old fan of the show from Arizona who was baptized into the Catholic Church in April and is a part of a Groyper Reddit group. Westley said his immigration views align more closely with Fuentes' than with the Vatican's. "I don't support Pope Leo's outspokenness on being pro-immigration," Westley said.

At 25, Jane Sammon was drawn to the movement's love for the Catholic Church, their willingness to live in voluntary poverty and their readiness to risk jail opposing the Vietnam War.

 'The detention conditions are horrid, and they're almost jubilant about those conditions,' said the vice president for advocacy at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA during a webinar his organization held with Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski. Wenski continues to be the only archbishop in the nation allowed to provide a consistent flow of priests inside immigrant detention facilities in Florida.

At Delaney Hall, the East Coast's largest immigrant detention facility, families and volunteers say harsh conditions and shifting rules have urged the need for spiritual care.

Early Thursday morning (Aug. 14), Catholic sisters processed through downtown Atlanta in a 'Pilgrimage of Hope,' praying for migrants, racial justice and action on climate change.

Religious organizations in New York City are reviving old strategies and adopting new ones to protect their communities from immigration enforcement.

'I'm like, not again!' said one parishioner of the historic St. Teresa of Avila Church, who moved there after her previous church in the neighborhood was closed.

Papal transitions subtly but unmistakably reshape the church — and the religious goods business.

Sr. Susan Francois has spent the past four years filing shareholder resolutions against Citigroup, urging the company to rethink its financial ties to fossil fuel projects that impact Indigenous communities. 

For decades the Catholic Worker movement has served meals at its two soup kitchens at Maryhouse and St. Joseph House in Manhattan’s East Village, feeding hungry New Yorkers from the thousands of pounds of fresh produce the workers grew at a farm in upstate New York named for the movement’s co-founder, Peter Maurin.