We don’t know the names of all of the men so far, but the Guatemalan, Honduran and Mexican consulates have acknowledged that citizens of their nations working together in the United States are among the missing and the presumed dead.

Catholic Charities locations have become the target of far-right media personalities, conspiracy theorists and even members of Congress.

Mother Cabrini became America’s first saint. But was she herself a legal U.S. immigrant? And would her story be possible today? 

If in its first years, the bishops’ campaign for religious freedom seemed directed at the U.S. left, it is actors on the hard right who have now emerged as the most significant threat to religious freedom.

Sugar is not the only industry that exploits Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic, but it offers a unique lens through which to understand racism and xenophobia.

"This is not about politics," Bishop Seitz said. "It's about the Gospel."