Tag: Migration

Cardinal Joe: Trump’s Immoral Wall Threatens Lives, Is Based on Lies and Anti-Immigrant Agenda

Cardinal Joseph Tobin writes: A wall would probably drive them into more remote areas of the desert or mountains, possibly to their deaths, as the forces driving them — violence, persecution and extreme poverty — are more life threatening than a risky border crossing. In fact, close to 8,000 migrants have died in Arizona and… Read More Cardinal Joe: Trump’s Immoral Wall Threatens Lives, Is Based on Lies and Anti-Immigrant Agenda

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Bishop Stowe: Pro-Lifers Should Not Sport Slogans of President Who Denigrates and Endangers Immigrants

Bishop John Stowe of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky writes: I am ashamed that the actions of Kentucky Catholic high school students have become a contradiction of the very reverence for human life that the march is supposed to manifest. As such, I believe that U.S. Catholics must take a look at how our support… Read More Bishop Stowe: Pro-Lifers Should Not Sport Slogans of President Who Denigrates and Endangers Immigrants

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Cardinal Tobin Rips Trump’s Dishonest, Dehumanizing Anti-Immigrant Speech

Cardinal Joseph Tobin released the following statement on President Trump’s speech on Tuesday night: I listened with deep disappointment to the dehumanizing words used to describe our immigrant sisters and brothers. These men, women and children are neither numbers, nor criminal statistics, but flesh and blood people with their own stories and histories. Most are… Read More Cardinal Tobin Rips Trump’s Dishonest, Dehumanizing Anti-Immigrant Speech

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Pope Warns against Rising Nationalism, Defends Universal Human Rights and Migrants

via Vatican News: It is clear, though, that relationships within the international community, and the multilateral system as a whole, are experiencing a period of difficulty, with the resurgence of nationalistic tendencies at odds with the vocation of the international Organizations to be a setting for dialogue and encounter for all countries.  This is partly… Read More Pope Warns against Rising Nationalism, Defends Universal Human Rights and Migrants

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Catholic Leaders Denounce Unconscionable, Heartbreaking Decision to End TPS Designation for 200,000 Salvadorans

Christopher White writes: The U.S. bishops have termed the Trump administration’s decision not to renew the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation to El Salvador as “heartbreaking” and pledged to stand with Salvadoran TPS recipients as they risk being separated from their families and homes in the United States. The decision, announced by the Department of… Read More Catholic Leaders Denounce Unconscionable, Heartbreaking Decision to End TPS Designation for 200,000 Salvadorans

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Whole Life Pope Identifies Immigration as a Pro-life Issue

Christopher White writes: During his in-flight press conference en route home from Colombia, the pope recalled that “I heard the president of the United States introduce himself as a ‘pro-life’ man. “A good pro-lifer understands that family is the cradle of life, and that its unity must be defended,” the pope said. The pope’s remarks… Read More Whole Life Pope Identifies Immigration as a Pro-life Issue

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Hope and Wisdom Prevail at Princeton Conference on Forced Migration

Who is the refugee? Who do I recognize myself to be when confronted with the refugee? How does the politicization of refugees hurt and help them? What responsibility do faith communities have to respond to this crisis? What concretely can we do to respond? These are a few of the burning questions tackled earlier this… Read More Hope and Wisdom Prevail at Princeton Conference on Forced Migration

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