Bishop Mark Seitz led a March 24 demonstration and prayer vigil to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy.

“Just don’t open the door. They can’t enter without a court order,” Ms. Castellanos recalled her advice to Maricarmen. “If she had opened the door that day her daughter would be dead.”

A scholarship program in Belize funded by U.S.A.I.D. gave me an incredible opportunity to change my life for the better. I saw it as proof that the United States was practicing love toward its neighbors.

The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life has published a pastoral framework to help dioceses strengthen and promote the pastoral care of human life.

“We have 82 volunteers and we are open all week long,” said Cardinal Krajewski, the pope’s charity point man, adding that each doctor has one or two on-calls in the clinic, and that the Lenten initiative was an extra activity for them.

Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday, but he must continue the therapies and observe “a period of rest and convalescence for at least two months,” his doctors said.

“I can say that it has certainly been a very hard time for him, this month, for him who loves to give himself entirely, to be there in the hospital bed without being able to help others,” Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández said.

“Trump [is] flexing his power and trying to push the law into areas that have not been tested before...and the challenge really is not to the people affected but to the rule of law itself.”

On this Jubilee Year of Hope-themed episode of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Father Ramil Fajardo, a tribunal judge in the Archdiocese of Chicago, about all things indulgences.

Donald Trump’s standoff with a federal judge over deportations is pushing the country toward a constitutional crisis.