On Thurs 3/13, join the dialogue “Human Costs of Abandoning U.S. Help Around the World” and hear from Sr. Florence Muia, ASN, founder of Upendo Village, a facility in Kenya that supports people living with HIV RSVP bit.ly/CatholicGlob... #CatholicGlobalAidGU #LikeACatholicSister

We’re hosting an important online dialogue with Catholic sisters doing lifesaving work on the front lines and @catholicrelief.bsky.social leaders; RSVP —>

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Human Costs of Abandoning U.S. Help Around the World: The Experience of Catholic Sisters and Catholic Relief Services 📅 Thurs, March 13 🕓 1:30 pm ET 📍Online 🗣️ Sr. Eneless Chimbali, SBVM Sr. Florence Muia, ASN Bill O’Keefe Sr. Dee Smith, M.M. 🔗 catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/events/human...

You can find the quote during the Q&A section here, although Seitz ALSO responds to Vance's suggestion that Catholic bishops are more concerned about their "bottom line" early on in the program: www.youtube.com/live/cbIp--H...

Migration, Refugee Resettlement, and Mass Deportation: Moral, Human, and Policy Choices

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NEW: Speaking on a panel at Georgetown tonight, Bishop Mark Seitz of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, who chairs the USCCB's Committee on Migration, was asked about Vice President JD Vance’s argument invoking ordo amoris to justify Trump’s immigration policies. Seitz offered an impassioned rebuke:

Bishop Seitz, et al. writes: "All people are conceived with inherent dignity, reflecting the image of God. Through our parishes, shelters, hospitals, schools, [etc.], we recognize that this dignity is not dependent on a person's citizenship or #immigration status." www.usccb.org/news/2025/hu...

“Human Dignity is Not Dependent on a Person's Citizenship or Immigration Status”

Bishop Mark J. Seitz (USCCB), Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM (CHA), and Kerry Alys Robinson (CCUSA) have issued a statement in response to action taken by the Trump Ad...

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Pope: “In a world “characterized by disinformation and polarization, as a few centers of power control an unprecedented mass of information,” beware of media that “generates not hope, but fear and despair, prejudice, resentment, fanaticism and even hatred.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...

Protecting the Safety Net and Strengthening the Child Tax Credit 🗓️Wed, Jan 29 🕧7pm EST 📍Online 🗣️@peggybaileydc.bsky.social, John Carr (Circle of Protection), Sandra Jackson (House of Ruth), @michaelrstrain.bsky.social, and moderator @kdaniels8.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/SupportFamil... #SupportFamiliesGU

And in appointing Consolata Sister Brambilla as the first woman prefect of a Vatican Dicastery (the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life) Pope Francis has just made history.

In appointing Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, the Holy Father has just selected one of the brightest and most capable clerics in the entire US church.

Cardinal Robert McElroy is a scholar of American political history and its nexus with Catholic theology. The California native studied at Harvard and Stanford and brings pastoral experience at the San Diego border. More from Michael Sean Winters.

Pope Francis picks an advocate for church reform for Washington, DC

Cardinal Robert McElroy is a scholar of American political history and its nexus with Catholic theology. The California native studied at Harvard and Stanford and brings pastoral experience at the San...

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It's official: Pope Francis taps Cardinal McElroy as Washington's new archbishop.

Pope Francis taps Cardinal McElroy as Washington's new archbishop

Pope Francis taps Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C. McElroy of San Diego is expected to succeed retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, who has led the Washington Archdio...

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BREAKING: Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, changing them to life sentences. It’s a victory for religious advocates and others who have pushed him to take the step.

Pope Francis today made a special appeal for those on death row in the United States, praying that their sentence can be "commuted, changed". Francis has revised Catholic teaching to say the death penalty is "inadmissible" and should be abolished.

As Trump threatens mass deportations, Iowa’s Catholic Bishops issue letter saying “we want to assure you that you are not alone;” cites Pope’s migrants “are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity;” invokes Matt 25 we will “all be held accountable for the way we treated others.”

An English-language translation of the Final Document of the Synod has been published. (It's a "working translation" because as a magisterial teaching, the "official translation" may take more time.) I hope that you will read and pray over the fruit of our discernment www.synod.va/en/news/fina...

"...mass deportation threatens to break up nearly 5 million American families" Important report from the Center for Migration Studies; h/t Brian Fraga/National Catholic Reporter cmsny.org/publications...

Proposed 2024 Mass Deportation Program Would Socially and Economically Devastate American Families - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)

In this report, we highlight the devastation of mass deportation on both undocumented residents and their US citizen and legal noncitizen families and communities.

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Tomorrow, Tuesday Nov 12, our Public Dialogue with Ryan Burge, Tom Reese SJ, Sabrina Rodriguez, and Judy Woodruff will explore “Faith and the Faithful in the 2024 Election: What Happened, Why, and What Now?” RSVP for the livestream at 7pm ET: catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/events/faith...

Wonderful to work with colleagues old and new at #Synod2023. Particularly grateful to meet so many women leaders from around the world and for their contributions to this gathering. What a remarkable moment in the life of our Church!