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The Catholic Observer
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Catholic Voices: The U.S. bishops are speaking out forcefully on politics — and finally being heard

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1024+ words) By Sam Sawyer, S.J., America: The Jesuit Review, September 8, 2026 When the Catholic Church speaks up about politics, who is it who decides what to say? When the Church says something on a contentious political issue, however, we are often tempted to…...

The Catholic Observer
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Catholic Voices: Under Pope Leo XIV, MAGA Country Catholics Are Standing Up to Trump

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (372+ words) By Christopher Hale, Letters from Leo Last August I wrote that Catholics in MAGA country had become the most visible, organized counterweight to Donald Trump’s ICE raids, and I counted six red states to prove it. Dan Merica of The…...

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Nun Speaks Out About ICE Agents Arresting Her As She Walked to Mass In Texas

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (576+ words) Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja says she became seized with fear and broke into a cold sweat, her heart racing, when two armed immigration agents approached her before arresting her as she headed to Sunday Mass last month in South Texas....

The Catholic Observer
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On America's 250th birthday, Pope Leo Honors Migrants Who Died Crossing the Mediterranean

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (884+ words) Pope Leo XIV spent the Fourth of July on the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa honoring tens of thousands of migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe from North Africa, while condemning the brutal treatment of migrants and refugees and…...

The Catholic Observer
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Faith Leaders Win Access to Minister to Immigrant Detainees After Months-Long Legal Fight

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (720+ words) Catholic and other faith leaders can now minister daily to detainees at a Chicago-area immigrant-processing center — six months after filing a lawsuit arguing that the Trump administration had unlawfully denied them access. The nonprofit Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership…...

The Catholic Observer
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A note from Catholic Observer editor and founder Gary Gately

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (173+ words) The Catholic Observer A note from Catholic Observer editor and founder Gary Gately ​My apologies to Catholic Observer readers for not posting much of late. I’ve been struggling with some of the worst health issues of my life, and today,…...

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Why Do We Persevere? Praying the Rosary At An ICE Detention Center

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (574+ words) When we ask for Mary to guide us, we should be prepared. The journey might be inconvenient, rainy, freezing cold, dangerous. Sometimes Mary brings us to the foot of the cross, sometimes to the gates of ICE detention. I pray…...

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UPDATED: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz Decries Mass Deportation, Mass Detention Campaign: A "Grave Moral Evil," Which "Must Be Opposed"

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (998+ words) El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz on Sunday denounced the Trump administration’s campaign of mass detention and mass deportation of immigrants as “a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those…...

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UPDATED: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz Calls Mass Deportation, Mass Detention of Immigrants a "Grave Moral Evil," Which "Must Be Opposed"

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1005+ words) El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz on Sunday denounced the Trump administration’s campaign of mass detention and mass deportation of immigrants as “a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those…...

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The Full Text of El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz's March 15 Pastoral Letter On Mass Deportation and Mass Detention of Immigrants

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (262+ words) By Bishop Mark J. Seitz Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth. (Ephesians 5, 8-9) In this holy season of Lent, God invites us to journey with the suffering Jesus to the Cross and…...