"This celebration is a profound gesture of solidarity by the Church in the United States and the Church in Haiti with more than 350,000 people who now find themselves in this difficult situation," said Cardinal Chibly Langlois.
The parishes that won Socorro, Texas, running water in the 1980s are now fighting ICE's plan to convert warehouses into a mega detention center. And the town's water system is at issue again.
Before Florida executed two inmates in one day July 28, the Catholic bishops of that state issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to reflect on the Church's moral opposition to the practice.
The MAID legislation itself, which makes New York the 13th U.S. state along with the District of Columbia to authorize physician-assisted suicide, was signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul Feb. 6.
A statue of the Virgin Mary was cleaned and an outdoor altar repaired in Medjugorje after a July 28 overnight attack, as police detained a Polish suspect and church leaders urged restraint.
The Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act would prevent the federal government from constructing border security infrastructure around the prominent Catholic pilgrimage site overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border.
Authorities are investigating a string of early-morning vandalism and arson attacks at Medjugorje, a major Catholic pilgrimage site in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle conveyed his sadness in hearing of the shooting the evening before at the Seattle Center in a July 27 letter to Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson.
A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit Monday from an interfaith group that challenged the legitimacy of President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, dismissing claims that its overwhelmingly conservative Christian makeup lacked a legally required balance of viewpoints.
