‘And You Did Not Welcome Me’

Latin America

The New ‘Preeminent Urgency’

A special episode about how the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s ‘crackdown’ on migrants and its plans for mass deportations.

Domestic Affairs

Article

Will the Bishops Stand Up to Trump?

Now is the time for the bishops and Catholic laity to prepare for effective resistance to Trump's immigration crackdown.

By Terence Sweeney

January 27, 2025

Bishops

Article

The Suffering to Come

Catholics need to take a proactive and creative role in combatting widespread disinformation about immigrant communities.

By Brett C. Hoover

January 23, 2025

Article

“You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt”

Inundated

By Brett C. Hoover

February 28, 2024

Religion

Feature

Waiting on the Threshold

Núria López Torres and Agus Morales meet migrants stuck at the Mexican border.

By Núria López Torres and Agus Morales

July 31, 2023

The Hidden Cruelty of U.S. Immigration Law

We speak with attorney and law professor Michael Kagan about the illogic of U.S. immigration law, the need for solidarity, and the prospects for reform.

Article

Francis Claps Back

That Francis explicitly rebukes Vance is extraordinary. But then, so too is Vance’s consistent and dangerous demonizing and scapegoating of migrants.

By Griffin Oleynick

February 12, 2025

Article

Short of the Mark

Philadelphia archbishop Nelson J. Pérez's statement on immigration is equivocal and hollow.

By Ryan M. Brown

February 20, 2025

Religion

Article

American Paganism

The debate is not whether modern paganism is real, but where it lives, how it appears, and what it does. In contemporary politics, it's cruelty and violence.

By David Albertson

February 3, 2020

Election 2020

Philosophy

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Violence done against the bodies of marginalized people is violence done against the body of Christ.

Open Letter | Against the New Nationalism

By The Editors

August 19, 2019

Article

‘It’s Up to God’

Contrary to the paranoia encouraged by the Trump administration, migrants are people of deep faith, guilty only of looking for a home.

By Joseph Sorrentino

December 11, 2018

Spirituality

Article

Shameful & Shameless

The morally shameful policy of separating children from their parents at the border demands explicit and sustained condemnation.

By The Editors

June 19, 2018

Article

A Heartless Policy

The Trump administration traumatizes, terrorizes, and defaces the image of God all of us bear.

By John Gehring

June 4, 2018

Article

Resist & Be Not Afraid

Our current president pushes us toward fear, insecurity, and selfishness, but the gospel says otherwise

By John Gehring

January 11, 2018

Article

The Bishops and ICE

Trump's political theater, which threatens the dignity and safety of Chicago migrants, calls for condemnation by the bishops.

By Isabella Simon

October 25, 2025

Bishops

Feature

Controversial Crèches

Christmas crèches have always included a prophetic purpose. This year, some churches are using their nativity scenes to call out mass deportations.

By Heidi Schlumpf

December 21, 2025

Religion

Article

Growing Heavy for the Vintage

The fields of California's Central Valley, cultivated by migrants, shine a light on how our habits and policies fail to honor the people whose hands feed us.

By Brandon McNeice

January 5, 2026

Labor

Social Justice

Article

Renee Good’s Dignity

As the Trump administration moves the country further into fascism, the times demand an even stronger defense of the human dignity of all life—including Renee Good’s.

By Heidi Schlumpf

January 16, 2026