via America: Asked about some Catholics’ criticism of giving an award to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, Pope Leo XIV said, “I would ask first and foremost that there be greater respect for one another.”… “I’m not terribly familiar with the particular case,” the pope said before adding, “I think that it is very important to… Read More Pope Leo: Abortion Opponents Who Favor the Death Penalty, Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Not Really Pro-Life

Highlights from Cardinal Robert McElroy’s homily in Washington DC at the Mass for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees: But this year is different from the one hundred ten years that have preceded it. For this year we are confronting – both as a nation and as a Church – an unprecedented assault… Read More Cardinal McElroy Calls for Prophetic Response to Unprecedented Assault Upon Millions of Immigrants and Families

via PBS News: Bishop Michael Pham, appointed by Pope Leo as the first U.S. bishop under his papacy, has emerged as a new voice of the Catholic Church. Through his own story of survival as a child refugee from Vietnam, he’s stepped into the national spotlight, showing up at immigration courts to support families caught… Read More Bishop Michael Pham Emerges as a New Voice of the Catholic Church

The USCCB has released The Cabrini Pledge, as “both a reminder of our immigrant heritage and a call to deeper engagement with our faith in response to current events.” You can watch Bishop Seitz introduce the pledge here: Here is the text of the pledge: To affirm, in word and deed, the inherent dignity of… Read More The US Bishops Introduce the Cabrini Pledge

via OSV News: In a video message to the annual ALS Walk for Life in Chicago, he said he mourns for those who have died from the disease and praised caregivers as well as researchers and all involved in fighting the neurodegenerative disorder…. “You have been given a very difficult burden to bear. I wish… Read More Pope Leo XIV Sends Video Message to ALS Walk for Life in Chicago

via the Vatican: No matter how ancient or widespread, Cain’s violence cannot be tolerated as “normal.” On the contrary, the norm is revealed in God’s question to the guilty party: “Where is your brother?” (Gen 4:9). It is in this question that we find our vocation, the rule and measure of justice…. Brother, sister, where… Read More Fraternity Means Rediscovering the Face of the Other

Watch Millennial writer Nichole Flores and other Catholic leaders in the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life’s “Deportations and Assaults on Human Dignity: A Special Initiative Roundtable on Catholic Principles, Human Costs, and Pastoral Challenges”: