There is plenty of work to be done at the border that does not include building a wall.

Lawmakers voted late Jan. 3 to keep Jesuit Father Patrick J. Conroy, the 60th chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, in the post for the next two years.

An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted shortly before the shutdown began finds that both Republicans and Democrats are far more likely to include immigration in their list of top issues facing the country this year compared with a year ago.

Catholics make up majorities of congressional delegations from six states—Alaska, Arizona, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont—and half of the delegations from Iowa, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

Women who worked in Ireland's "Magdalene laundries" but were denied compensation under the state's Magdalene Restorative Justice program have won their long-running battle to have their applications reassessed.

The editor of the "Woman-Church-World" supplement to the Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano" argued in the January 2, 2019 edition that "the sacrifices of women" are used to "reinforce the power of those who already have it." The editor, Lucetta Scaraffia, wrote about how the Catholic Church should include women in leadership and decision-making capacities.