By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 13:48 pm Editor’s Note: For the Prayer Service by Archbishop Robert G. Casey in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, click here.  Hundreds of Catholics gathered in front of the Denver Contract Detention Facility — an ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado — …

Newly elected USCCB President Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City highlights the U.S. Bishops’ care for migrants, synodality, and efforts to overcome polarization by being instruments of communion. By Christopher Wells The question of immigration is “a burning issue” for American bishops, Archbishop Paul Coakley told Vatican News in an …

By Tessa Gervasini Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 24, 2025 / 14:05 pm Archbishop Nelson Perez of Philadelphia has expressed “sorrow” for and “prayerful solidarity” with the immigrant community as arrests continue to take place across the United States. “You are not alone,” Perez wrote to U.S. immigrants in a July 23 pastoral …

For the right to an education Let us pray for migrants, refugees, and those affected by war, that their right to an education, which is necessary to build a better world, might always be respected.

For migrants fleeing their homes We pray that migrants fleeing from war or hunger, forced to undertake journeys full of danger and violence, find welcome and new opportunities in the countries that receive them.

March 4, 2024 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, There is no doubt we live in polarized times.  Virtually every topic seems to be fodder for political division.  In such times, our Catholic faith can be tested even more intensely than usual, especially when our faith runs up against public …

On November 13, the universal Church honors c, an Italian missionary who spent much of her life working with Italian immigrants in the United States. Mother Cabrini, who had a deathly fear of water and drowning, crossed the Atlantic Ocean more than 30 times in service of the Church and …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jul 1, 2021 / 07:00 am Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of Chicago auxiliary Bishop John R. Manz, who has dedicated his priesthood to advocating for immigrants. Bishop Manz turned 75 in November, the age at which bishops are required to send a …

Growing up in Guatemala, I went to a Catholic School, celebrated our Catholic faith – Catholicism was all I knew. Guatemala, at the time, was probably 99 percent Catholic. Moving to the U.S. was a big change in every way. When I moved here, directly from Guatemala to Ohio, I …

“This exhibit comes to the museum as the nation grapples with recent investigative reporting exposing the separation of families at our borders,” said Dion Brown, president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. “It is incredibly important that we host this exhibit that partners with organizations like Catholic …