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.
Priest’s 50-day trek on foot to NYC highlights migrant families affected by ICE raids October 23, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, social media, World News A Chicago-area priest is on a mission to highlight the plight of families upended by the current mass deportation efforts in the United States by making a 50-day pilgrimage — on foot — from Chicago to New York.
Baltimore Catholics unite in prayer for migrant families facing arrests October 21, 2025By Kurt Jensen Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made five recent arrests of members of just one Baltimore parish, Sacred Heart of Jesús-Corazón de Jesus parish in Highlandtown.
Make good trouble October 20, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice If you attend a church which blocks misfits, you’re in the wrong church. Jesus welcomed misfits — the Samaritan woman, the leper, the woman “caught in the very act” of adultery, the tax collector.
Missouri’s Catholic bishops call for merciful, just immigration policies October 16, 2025By Jay Nies The Catholic Missourian Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Missouri’s Catholic bishops are urging lawmakers and policymakers at every level of government to work toward lasting solutions to the challenges and opportunities brought by immigrants and immigration to this country.
ICE enforcement impacts immigrant priests, seminarians and religious in U.S. October 16, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Immigrant priests, seminarians and religious in the U.S. are among those impacted by immigration enforcement policy, advocates and analysts told OSV News.
Bishops call for solidarity with immigrants in binational pilgrimage and Mass October 15, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News As the sun set over the international border a small cadre of Catholic bishops processed toward Mexico. Flanked by priests, religious brothers and sisters, laity and immigration advocates, the U.S. prelates walked along Main Street in San Luis Oct. 12.
Fear at Chicago church puts in focus US bishops’ effort to protect migrants’ right to worship October 14, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Amid growing concern about the impact of the Trump administration’s rollback of a policy that prohibited immigration enforcement in sensitive locations, the U.S. Catholic bishops have offered their support to a lawsuit challenging the policy change.
Latino leaders explore the role community organizing can play in national politics October 10, 2025By Maria del Pilar Guzman Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News A dialogue at Georgetown University drew attention to the crucial role of community organizing in the Latino community and how it can serve to reinvigorate the voice of people in politics, both in local-level issues and broader political movements.
