via Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston: “Immigration policy presents many challenges for any country. Developing sound immigration policy that respects the needs of a nation and those of the international community is a complex and challenging process. It always involves reconciling domestic priorities and global demands, strategy and tactics, objectives and means. At its core,… Read More Cardinal Seán: Our Country’s Immigration Policy Destroys Families, Traumatizes Parents, and Terrorizes Children

Pope Francis: “I send my cordial greetings to all those following the World Soccer Championships that begin today in Russia. I hope this sports event may be a positive opportunity for encounter and fellowship.”

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville released the following statement:

Christopher White writes: More than 80 prominent and emerging Catholic leaders gathered this week in an effort to see how a unified American Catholic Church might offer a better way forward. “Though Many One: Overcoming Polarization through Catholic Social Thought,” hosted by the Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, served… Read More US Catholic Leaders Gather to Discuss Polarization

via CNS: Loving wealth destroys the soul, and cheating people of their just wages and benefits is a mortal sin, Pope Francis said. Jesus did not mince words when he said, “Woe to you who are rich,” after listing the Beatitudes as written according to St. Luke, the pope said in a morning homily. If… Read More Pope Francis: Cheating Workers is a Mortal Sin and Loving Wealth Destroys the Soul

John McGreevy, dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, writes in Commonweal: Exiled in the United States after the German army roared through his native France, feverishly working to rally anti-fascist Catholics in North and South America, philosopher Jacques Maritain insisted in a 1941… Read More World War II, Vatican II, and Catholic Support for Democracy

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville writes: Separating immigrant parents and children as a supposed deterrent to immigration is a cruel and reprehensible policy. Children are not instruments of deterrence, they are children. A government that thinks any means is suitable to achieve an end cannot secure justice for anyone.