“Ordo amoris”: A short honeymoon for Catholics in DC as Vice President Vance clashes with bishops on migration

PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, reports that less than a week after the inauguration, US Vice President JD Vance has sparred with some senior Catholics…
Grassroots advocacy: In San Antonio, a pioneer of modern faith-based community organising has deep roots

Starting with flooding, COPS/Metro, a grassroots advocacy organisation consisting largely of San Antonio religious groups, took on the issues that San Antonio leaders were neglecting, revitalising a strategy of faith-based organising that spread throughout the US. ALEJA HERTZLER-MCCAIN, of Religion News Service, reports…
Capital punishment: Faith leaders, activists, the Pope urge Biden to empty federal death row before Trump term

Activists and faith leaders hope to save the lives of 40 federal death row inmates, fearing Donald Trump would authorise an ‘execution spree’ after taking office. BOB SMIETANA and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report…
US faith leaders express dismay amid report Trump will allow immigration raids at churches

United States RNS US faith leaders are reacting with concern to a report that President-elect Donald Trump plans to rescind a long-standing policy that discourages immigration officials from conducting raids at churches, schools and hospitals. According to a report from NBC News on Wednesday, the incoming Trump administration plans to do away with a policy […]
Chair of US bishops’ ‘pro-life’ committee wants Catholics to see abortion’s impact on families

Baltimore, US RNS Ever since the 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court case struck down the national right to abortion, anti-abortion advocates, including the Unites States’ Catholic bishops, have struggled to gain voters’ support in limiting access to the procedure at the state level. On Election Day, abortion rights amendments passed in […]
Abuse survivors urge the Vatican to globalise the zero-tolerance policy it approved in the US

Rome, Italy AP Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the US Catholic Church in 2002 to the rest of the world, arguing that children everywhere should be protected from predator priests. The US norms, adopted at the height of the abuse scandal there, […]
Essay: How will the Catholic bishops deal with the new Trump administration?

US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that a look back at the last one may give us a clue…
US Catholic bishops say they will defend migrants if Trump violates rights

Baltimore, US RNS Gathering in Baltimore on Tuesday, just a week after former President Donald Trump won reelection, leaders of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops promised to defend immigrants and poor people in the coming years. “As the successors of the Apostles and vicars of Christ in our dioceses, we never backpedal or renounce […]
“We need to listen”: Bishop Joseph Espaillat challenges Catholics to listen to Latino youth

ALEJA HERTZLER-MCCAIN, of Religion News Service, reports on one US Catholic’s bishop bid to connect with youth…
Catholic diocese sues US Government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave

United States AP For more than a year, religious organisations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States. The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New […]