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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., listens as Republican senators talk to reporters about the Laken Riley Act, a bill to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP.)

Bishop says Laken Riley Act, mass deportations, are ‘vigilante’ approach

Jan 14
John Lavenburg

Residents flee their homes to escape gang violence in the Nazon neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Credit: Odelyn Joseph/AP.)

US bishops urge Congress to renew economic programs for Haiti before the New Year

Dec 17, 2024
John Lavenburg

US bishops oppose including women on registry for a military draft

Dec 7, 2024
John Lavenburg

The ruins of a building that was part of a Native American boarding school on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in Mission, S.D., are shown here Oct. 15, 2022. Federal officials with the Interior Department called on the U.S. government Tuesday, July 30, 2024, to apologize for a nationwide system of boarding schools in which children faced abuse and neglect. (Credit: Matthew Brown/AP.)

Catholic bishops want Church to have say in commission on boarding schools for Native Americans

Aug 14, 2024
John Lavenburg

Monique Grant moves belongings out of an apartment after being evicted, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Westminster, Colo. Monthly rent has outpaced income across the U.S., and forced many to make tough decisions between everyday necessities and a home. In turn, a record number of people are becoming homeless and eviction filings have ratcheted up as pandemic-era eviction moratoriums and federal assistance ends. (Credit: David Zalubowski/AP.)

U.S. bishops support legislation aimed to increase affordable housing

Jul 17, 2024
John Lavenburg

A boy is pictured in a file photo standing in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda Wind Farm, near Mekele in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu said the climate crisis is holding back African development. (Credit: Kumerra Gemechu/Reuters via CNS.)

House appropriations bill could have ‘dire consequences,’ says aid group

Jul 2, 2024
John Lavenburg

Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia attends the episcopal ordination of New York Auxiliary Bishops John S. Bonnici and Joseph A. Espaillat March 1, 2022, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.)

U.S. archbishop says don’t ‘resort to violence to resolve political issues’

Jun 26, 2024
John Lavenburg

President Joe Biden walks off after speaking about an executive order in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP.)

Biden’s new border restrictions will have ‘serious human consequences,’ Catholic leaders say

Jun 5, 2024
John Lavenburg

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters following a Democratic strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Credit: Scott Applewhite/AP.)

Don’t expect immigration reform before November, Catholic expert says

Jun 3, 2024
John Lavenburg

Ansonia Lyons carries her son, Adrien Lyons, as she takes him for a diaper change in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. After two miscarriages, Ansonia became pregnant in 2020, and it was difficult. Doctors initially told her she was suffering from regular morning sickness, though she was vomiting blood. Ultimately, she was diagnosed with an excessive vomiting disorder. A study published Monday, July 3, 2023, in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows maternal mortality rates in the U.S. doubled between 1999 and 2019, that Native American and Alaskan Native populations had the largest rate increase and that, overall, Black maternal mortality rates were the highest. (Credit: Wong Maye-E/AP.)

U.S. bishops urge Congress to address maternal health care crisis

May 14, 2024
John Lavenburg