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Workers Justice Project Director Gonzalo Cruz, left, and organizer Juan Carlos Romero watch President Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on TV in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York. The Workers Justice Project is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that helps immigrants. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J. Kevin Appleby
President Joe Biden has restarted the debate over immigration with a sweeping reform bill. Passage will not be easy, but the Catholic community can help achieve a long-overdue victory.
Young women put to work at a Fe y Alegria program in Soyapango, El Salvador. The training program is one of about 20 across Central America that partner with YouthBuild, a program of Catholic Relief Services that trains young people in various work skills so they can avoid emigrating. (CNS photo/Oscar Leiva, Silverlight for Catholic Relief Services)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
The Biden administration has vowed to invest $4 billion in Central America to address factors that drive immigration to the United States—economic insecurity, violence, environmental crises and government corruption.
FaithInterviews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
An interview with Massimo Faggioli about what to expect from the second Catholic president
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The Catholic physician and researcher Jerome Lejeune devoted his life to protecting unborn children with Down syndrome from so-called “therapeutic abortion.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Aysha Khan - Religion News Service
Muslims are breathing a sigh of relief after President Joe Biden's reversal of the travel ban, which has separated thousands of families since it was issued by former President Trump.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
A former president of the Vatican bank and his lawyer were found guilty of money laundering and embezzling millions of euros from property sales.
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Achieving the goals involves setting policy as well as adopting legislation to limit carbon pollution, which the vast majority of climate scientists have said is the leading cause of a warming planet.
Politics & SocietyNews
Gerard O’Connell
These were the first such suicide bombings since June 2019 and came on the eve of the pope’s planned visit to the country on March 5-8, a visit that now is under serious question.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
The disciples of Jesus were not pursuing ideas as they were coming to love and to understand a person.  
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden are seen at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan 20, 2021, before his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States. (CNS photo/Jim Bourg, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the U.S.C.C.B., wished the new president well, but he also condemned the nation’s second Catholic president’s support for abortion rights.
FaithNews Analysis
Bill McCormick, S.J.
The full context of Augustine’s line is perhaps not as rosy as Joe Biden might have suggested.
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed hope the incoming administration "will work with the church and others of goodwill."
Politics & SocietyShort Take
James T. Keane
Amid the somber ceremonies, perhaps today we can wave goodbye to our starchy past.
Politics & SocietyNews
Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
If all the nominees the president-elect has chosen are confirmed, the Cabinet will have diverse religious backgrounds. The majority are Catholic, with five Jews, two Black Baptists and two Hindus.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Pope Francis
Pope Francis' remarks from his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 20.
FaithFaith in Focus
Matt Malone, S.J.
The story of Joe Biden can be told in many ways. But from my vantage point, it is the story of one soul’s journey from darkness to light, from Good Friday to Easter Sunday.
Politics & SocietyNews
America Staff
Read President Joseph R. Biden's Inaugural Address.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a message to the second Catholic president, Pope Francis prayed that Joe Biden would work to heal the divisions in U.S. society and promote human dignity and peace around the globe.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell unpack this question: What makes the Vatican’s judicial system different from a modern democratic one, like Italy’s, and what are its pros and cons?
FaithNews
America Staff
At the inauguration of the second Catholic president in U.S. history, Jesuit Father Leo O’Donovan asked God to “help us under our new president to reconcile the people of our land.”