New USCCB president Coakley talks immigration, Vigano criticism, lifting up saints November 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected as the next president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He succeeds Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who has served in that office since 2022, at the end of the bishops’ Nov. 10-13 fall plenary.
Speaking out against unjust laws amid mass deportations November 11, 2025By Archbishop Thomas Wenski OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration To be a just man or woman is to be a person who turns outward to other people seeing them as God sees them, which is of course with perfect and unwavering charity.
‘Do you love Jesus more than your political opinion?’: Bishop Tyson says the church faces a test November 10, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Catholic Social Teaching, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The U.S. policy of mass deportation toward immigrants lacking legal authorization to be in the U.S., potentially affects one in six Catholics (18 percent) in the U.S., either because they are vulnerable personally or live with someone who is, according to a joint Catholic-Evangelical report issued earlier this year.
Archbishop Sample on ICE activity: Human dignity comes from God, not government November 10, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Respect Life, World News Human dignity comes “not from government, but from our loving God,” Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Oregon, declared in a Nov. 8 statement regarding recent immigration enforcement activity in that state.
Pope answers questions about migrants, Venezuela, Rupnik trial November 5, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Catholics in immigration detention centers have “spiritual rights” that Catholic clergy should be allowed to serve, Pope Leo XIV said.
Bishop says Trump administration ‘assured’ him detainees’ access to sacraments ‘under careful review’ November 4, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News Amid concern about the ability of those detained by immigration enforcement authorities to receive Catholic sacraments, a key U.S. bishop said Trump administration officials have “assured” him the matter is “under careful review.”
Catholics join in Chicago international commemoration of Ireland’s Great Famine November 4, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and migrants seeking a better life to the United States and other countries 180 years ago.
ICE bars Chicago bishop from giving detained Catholics holy Communion on All Saints November 3, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second time in three weeks from bringing the Eucharist to those being held at an immigration detention center just west of Chicago on the feast of All Saints Nov. 1.
Diocese announces religious visa lawsuit deal with national implications November 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Attorneys for the Diocese of Paterson, N.J., have moved to voluntarily dismiss a lawsuit they had filed against the federal government regarding visas for religious workers — a case that highlights the perfect storm created by the nation’s shifting immigration policies and the increased reliance on international clergy by the Catholic Church in the United States amid a downturn in domestic vocations to the priesthood.
Trump administration sets record-low refugee admission cap, with focus on white South Africans October 30, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Trump administration indicated it would restrict the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500, with most of that number to be white South Africans.
Raising their voice for justice October 30, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Commentary, Immigration and Migration This year, however, the annual November meeting in Baltimore has an opportunity to take a public stand on an issue that is roiling the neighborhoods and parishes of many American communities — the current administration’s aggressive campaign to seize and deport undocumented immigrants.
Pope: Opioid crisis, cruelty toward migrants are new social ills October 23, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News The current abuse of vulnerable migrants is not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty, Pope Leo XIV said, but rather it represents a serious crime being committed or tolerated by the government.
