Jesus’ outstretched hands on the cross continue to inspire the compassionate embrace of others by his followers, although the endurance of that inspiration is being tested by some obstacles in today’s world.
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Catholics express grief, warn of politicizing immigration issue in murder of Loyola student
Catholics in Chicago have expressed sympathy and sorrow over the death of a Loyola University Chicago student who was shot and killed March 19 near the school campus.
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Interview: Charlotte’s Bishop Martin on making disciples in a booming diocese, and why we should all care about the liturgy
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak with Bishop Michael Martin, O.F.M. Conv., of the Diocese of Charlotte. Bishop Martin sparked headlines in 2025 when a document leaked with plans to restrict the Latin Mass and other liturgical practices in his diocese.
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Jesuit priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees as border dynamics change
Over the past five years at the U.S.-Mexico border, Brian Strassburger, S.J., has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters to celebrating Mass with detained and deported migrants.
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis
“Archbishop Fulton Sheen was one of the greatest voices of evangelization in the Church and the world in the 20th century,” Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria said.
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On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Oscar Romero
Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in the United States, speaking against war-making and mass deportation.
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Bishop Seitz urges ICE agents not to follow illegal deportation orders
In a pastoral letter on March 15, Bishop Mark Seitz urged immigration enforcement agents not to follow illegal orders and denounced the “grave moral evil” of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
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Review: Seeking a healthy planet and a healthy church
In Christina Rivera’s new collection, we wander through waves of connections, an ebb and flow carrying us between climate change, the sixth extinction, motherhood, all kinds of oceans and personal challenges—including the writer’s desire to leave the Catholic Church she was raised in.
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Pope Leo accepts resignation of US bishop arrested for alleged financial crimes
Bishop Emanuel Shaleta pleaded not guilty to 17 felony charges during his arraignment in court in California on Monday. He is accused of embezzling $270,000 from the St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon.
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Bishop Seitz: The border is everywhere now
As the bishop of El Paso, I am often asked to offer my view of the current situation at the border. In addressing that important issue, I try to bring light on some deeper issues that I believe are at stake in the contemporary debate on immigration in our country and are urgent for our consideration.