According to Catholic social tradition, paying taxes is part of the way Catholic citizens contribute to the common good.

This year the Grand Bargain on refugees seems increasingly fragile.

“The health of the American people is incredibly important...you just don’t railroad something through, something you’ve just whipped together in the last couple of weeks.”

Jesuit and other Catholic academic leaders are ready to protect the Dreamers in their communities from deportation forces.

Mr. Bannon said he believes the Catholic Church has been “terrible” to Mr. Trump on the issue of immigration.

Remembering the church’s call to solidarity, a C.R.S. official asks only that as Americans reach out to assist their fellow citizens they continue to remember “our brothers and sisters around the world who are also in need.”

Reacting to the move to end DACA, the bishops said, “Today, our nation has done the opposite of how Scripture calls us to respond. It is a step back from the progress that we need to make as a country.”

“I cannot compare it to anything,” Donna Markham, O.P., president of Catholic Charities USA, says of the storm. “The expanse of it…it is bigger than Katrina. The loss of life has not been as great as Katrina, but the damage is just monumental.”

Worker productivity has been going up, but wages are not keeping up.

“It’s all part of their nativist agenda,” Kevin Appleby said. “The pattern is clear: Deport Latinos, ban Muslims and now this bill would prevent Asians and Africans from entering the country.”