Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal efforts to shut down a Catholic migrant shelter network in El Paso, Texas, is the latest example of the state trying to criminalize migrants and migration, said Bishop Mark Seitz.
Over 100 non-diocesan groups submitted their own synodal "synthesis" reports to the U.S. bishops. These Catholics participated in their own listening sessions for the grassroots consultation ahead of the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome.
Prominent Catholics are criticizing CatholicVote for what they see as a cynical ploy to attack President Biden's record on immigration by casting aspersions on Catholic agencies that assist migrants near the southern border.
Book review: Meatpacking America provides an intimate look at how workers — many of them refugees — navigate complex intersections of work and survival, migration and belonging, and race and religion in dangerous jobs.
Hope Border Institute has issued a new report on the root causes of migration. Interviewees in Central America say extortion, poverty, unemployment and worsening conditions as a result of COVID-19 are among the reasons they had no other option but to leave home.
Months ago, a Catholic women’s group invited me to speak at their luncheon about my work with the Haitian people. My presentation was later canceled. The following is what I had planned to share, as spoken in words that Jesus might have used.
The Maryland-based Catholic Legal Immigration Network announced June 22 it is joining forces with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to help people who are "stateless."
