Meeting the Stranger

Article

The Catholic Immigrant

The Church is the strongest connecting link between the old world and the new

By Marie Reilly Owens

December 9, 1925

From the Archives

Article

From Kennel to Icebox

We all have a moral obligation to provide detainees with humane conditions regardless of where they come from or why they left.

By Santiago Ramos

June 3, 2021

Immigration

Joe Biden

Richard Misrach, Wall, Los Indios, Texas, 2015 / Pace and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Feature

An Art of Immigration & Injustice

Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo’s joint exhibit demands that viewers consider the many unjust aspects of immigration policy

August 3, 2017

Article

An Illegal Immigrant

How my family was allowed to come to the United States, despite our Jewish origins

By John Tytell

May 22, 2017

Immigration

Domestic Affairs

Article

Catholic Solidarity with Immigrants

Many American Catholics have ancestors who were the beneficiaries of the Immigration Bureau’s advocacy. Will they support the bishops who speak out today?

February 6, 2017

Article

Trapped at the Border

The Trump administration insists its Migrant Protection Protocols keep asylum seekers safe. Reporting from Mexico shows otherwise.

July 20, 2020

Article

The first U.S. citizen to be canonized, she was an immigrant to the United States who devoted her life to welcoming immigrants.

Mother Cabrini’s American Welcome

By Paul Moses

November 13, 2017

Religious Life

Domestic Affairs

Women in the Church

Article

Works of Mercy

Opening our doors to Syrian refugees is the right thing to do and an acknowledgement of the responsibility the United States bears for the chaos in the Middle East.

By The Editors

September 8, 2015

Article

Don't Shut the Door

Catholic teaching emphasizes the obligation of nations to help the stranger in need. It is neither statesman-like nor Christian to close the door on Syrian refugees.

By The Editors

December 1, 2015

Muslim-Christian Relations

War and Peace

Article

White Catholics & Nativism

For Catholic immigrants, it’s been a struggle to get the support of fellow Catholics

By Paul Moses

September 1, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Race

Donald Trump

Feature

The Asylum to Our South

People fleeing to Mexico from extreme violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador face major obstacles

By Joseph Sorrentino

December 4, 2017

Latin America

Foreign Affairs

Article

Catholic Leaders Denounce Trump’s Immigration Cruelty

As Trump doubles down on the bitter politics of white backlash and ethnic nationalism, Catholic leaders have consistently defended DACA holders

September 6, 2017

Article

Migrants in Limbo

We need a truly international reckoning with the fact of mass migration, one in which wealthy countries actually confront climate change and food insecurity.

September 25, 2019

Article

Making an American

Jia Lynn Yang tells the story of a forty-year fight over immigration in the twentieth century, asking: What makes an American and who gets to decide?

September 7, 2020

Article

‘Trace of the Human’

A new show at the ICA in Boston addresses the global migration crisis by posing a simple question: what is a home? And why do more than 60 million people lack one?

November 29, 2019