With about 1.9 million online visits in March, the National Catholic Reporter placed seventh among nonprofit news sites per rankings maintained by Nieman Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
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Rosario and María were born 20 years apart, but they had a few defining features in common. Both were foreign-born women who landed on the U.S.-Mexico border with young children. Both were undocumented. For a time, these women's lives in the U.S. followed a similar trajectory. They easily found work, but struggled to make ends meet.
But an act of Congress set Rosario and María on different paths. In 1986, the U.S. created a one-time route to legal status for undocumented people already living here. Through the new law, Rosario was able to earn citizenship.
María, arriving too late, was not.
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Pope Leo spoke to students and academics at the University of Rome on May 15.
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If you sit on the left-hand side of the nave during Sunday morning Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, you will likely miss the homily.
Instead, you will have a front-row seat to the theater of pilgrims slowly wandering toward a cordoned-off area along the basilica's western wall, only to be met by a well-dressed usher rushing toward them while harshly whispering under his breath, "No photo!"
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There's been no conspiracy to omit the mention of Jesus Christ, but there has been a hesitancy to place him at the center of our events. Pope Leo XIV aims to correct this state of affairs, writes Michael Sean Winters.
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"You're never prepared for the amount of violence, meanness, cruelty that these officers brought to Minneapolis," Gonzalez said. "Cruelty was the point. Humiliation was the point. The fear was the point."
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So often, when we in the U.S. debate a war, we omit much of the globe from the conversation: We do not talk about (or to) rice farmers in Asia or soda vendors in Kenya when discussing the cost of a war in the Middle East.
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The Vatican warned that members of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X will incur excommunication if the group follows through with its threat to ordain new bishops without the approval of Rome.
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The Vatican’s doctrine chief said that the illicit bishop consecrations threatened by the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X would constitute a schismatic act and result in automatic excommunication.
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At the Second Vatican Council in 1965 Catholic bishops from around the world declared, "In a wonderful manner conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbor."
The words chosen then by the church provide the key for a sorely needed task now: The development of an examination of conscience about immigration enforcement in the United States.
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While the church's universal condemnation of suicide is clear, the application of this belief in state laws isn't always straightforward.
Suicide has been a crime in Virginia since the state was a British colony, but a new bill signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger last month, and effective July 1, 2027, will decriminalize it.
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Trump campaigned on the promise that he would fix high prices and avoid foreign wars. Instead, he has embroiled the nation in a war that has failed to meet any of the president's own stated criteria for attacking Iran.
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