Mark Pattison

A joint report by the Kino Border Initiative and Network, the  Catholic social justice lobby, details complaints lodged against U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents against those seeking asylum at the Arizona-Mexico border.

A poll whose results were released Aug. 5 by the Public Religion Research Institute showed large differences between religious groups in their attitudes toward getting the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves or for their children.

Former coal miner said Catholic Church taught him about helping others and the importance of protecting workers' rights and human rights.

Two Catholic organizations issued statements in July urging against imposing a coronavirus vaccine mandate without conscience, religious or medical exemptions.

Seventy-six percent of respondents of a recent survey conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate said sexual abuse of minors by clergy has hurt the church's reputation "at least somewhat."

The mere act of lifting the dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation as the pandemic eases won't be enough to revive attendance, and some dioceses and Catholics are actively working to bring people back.

A new PRRI report examined the U.S. religious landscape, and declared that "the most substantial cultural and political divides are between white Christians and Christians of color."

The U.S. Catholic Church may be missing out on an opportunity to increase and enrich its ranks if dioceses and parishes don't reach out to refugees, migrants, and people whose work demands that they travel. 

Ahead of World Refugee Day June 20, the U.S. bishops were told that many U.S. worship sites seem to be unaware of those Catholics near them who are refugees, immigrants and migrants.

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, in the kickoff session to the 2021 Catholic Media Conference, said that with "the Gospel of hope," Catholic communicators should be able to "communicate with hope and to communicate hope in the face of trying times."

Based on responses to a questionnaire sent to all U.S. dioceses, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate estimates there are about 19,000 deacons in the United States today. The number, though, is dropping, mirroring trends seen in religious life and the priesthood for the past half-century.

Water is indispensable for health of humans and ecosystems, but dry weather and contamination threaten supplies in California.

"The Eucharist must never be instrumentalized for a political end, no matter how important," said Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego in a May 5 essay published on the website of America magazine.

A report released April 14 by the Catholic Labor Network reveals that wage theft is rampant in the construction industry in the District of Columbia.

An interfaith coalition is urging the Biden administration to hasten family reunification to remedy Trump's "zero tolerance" policy that separated roughly 5,500 immigrant children from their families.

The coronavirus pandemic, as declared last March by the World Health Organization, was not even two weeks old when then-President Donald Trump said he wanted to see "packed churches" on Easter. That didn't happen. It won't happen this year, either.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has shifted even worker organizing, typically a person-to-person staple, to the online world, according to Blanca Estela Delgado.

John Sweeney, who led the AFL-CIO for 14 years from 1995 to 2009, and headed one of the nation's largest unions, the Service Employees International Union, for 15 years before that, died Feb. 1 at age 86 at his home in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Maryland. No cause was given.

Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego warned against the "weaponization of Eucharist" as a way to get Catholic elected officials, President Joe Biden among them, to adhere to the church's stance on abortion.

"The Eucharist unites and strengthens us in our efforts to secure justice for the unborn, and to create a culture wherein every human life is cherished, nurtured and protected from the moment of conception until natural death," said Archbishop Lori, chairman-elect of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.