A leading Catholic immigration expert expressed outrage over the Supreme Court's June 23 ruling allowing the Trump administration to remove immigrants who lack legal authorization to live and work in the U.S., to countries not specifically identified in their removal orders -- known as "third-country removals" -- without advance notice.
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles is calling for prayer, while urging "restraint and calm" as clashes have broken out in that city over recent immigration arrests. President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard amid pushback from California officials and is threatening to mobilize Marines.
The U.S. bishops' Feb. 18 lawsuit against the federal government for abrupt and sweeping changes to refugee resettlement funding, and the bishops' Feb. 20 admonition of President Donald Trump's executive order aiming to expand access to in vitro fertilization underscore the ongoing friction between the nation's Catholic leaders and its 47th president in his first month since reassuming office.
Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Auxiliary Bishops Michael Izen and Kevin Kenney, of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and five other Catholic bishops who are members of the Minnesota Catholic Conference released a statement Feb. 7 on immigration law and respect for migrants and the common good.
As part of swift and sweeping changes to immigration policy, the Trump administration is aiming to end or severely curtail two forms of immigration status that have been granted to hundreds of thousands escaping war, disaster, violence and humanitarian crises -- Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole.
Rooted in a desire to protect the inherent dignity of refugees and immigrants and respect the nation’s laws, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is providing individuals, families and Catholic parishes and schools with resources and information as new, federal immigration policies take effect, including broad efforts to deport undocumented immigrants.
A Philadelphia priest has called new Trump administration policies on immigration arrests a threat to the church's religious freedom and people's right to worship without fear.
When OSV News called her Jan. 21, Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Rose Patrice Kuhn had already crossed the border from McAllen, Texas, into Reynosa, Mexico -- walking, as she does most days, across the pedestrian bridge that connects the two cities in order to serve migrants at several shelters in Reynosa.
The expectation that President-elect Donald J. Trump's incoming administration will revoke the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's long-standing policy restricting the arrest of unauthorized immigrants at or near houses of worship has led faith leaders to protest what they say represents an impending threat to religious freedom.
State laws of interest to Catholics spanned policy areas from abortion to IVF to immigration in 2024. An expected ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2025 could have an impact on state laws across the country banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
At the first and only debate Oct. 1 between Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the vice presidential nominees of their respective parties, the candidates sparred with each other on topics including abortion, immigration, gun policy relating to preventing school shootings, and democracy, with each one all the while seeking to defend his own running mate while critiquing his opponent's.
