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‘Toward a more perfect union’: Pope Leo XIV on 250 years of US independence

diocese of El Paso

A sign in Las Cruces, New Mexico. (Credit: Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP.)

Trump administration sues Catholic diocese to seize land near El Paso for border barrier

May 16
Uriel J. Garcia/ The Texas Tribune

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in Washington, DC, on Jan 20, 2025. (Credit: Associated Press.)

Bishop says Trump’s efforts against immigrants ‘strikes fear’ in border communities

Jan 22, 2025
Crux Now Staff

Migrant parents including Iris, from Honduras, left, Gustavo, from Guatemala, standing in green, Wilson Romero, from Honduras, standing, and Christian, from Honduras, seated in gray, socialize outside the Annunciation House, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in El Paso, Texas. (Credit: Matt York/AP.)

Texas judge says Attorney General’s attempt to close Catholic shelter ‘outrageous’

Jul 3, 2024
John Lavenburg

Migrant parents including Iris, from Honduras, left, Gustavo, from Guatemala, standing in green, Wilson Romero, from Honduras, standing, and Christian, from Honduras, seated in gray, socialize outside the Annunciation House, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in El Paso, Texas. (Credit: Matt York/AP.)

Court blocks Texas Attorney General’s move to shut Catholic migrant shelter

Mar 13, 2024
John Lavenburg

Migrant parents including Iris, from Honduras, left, Gustavo, from Guatemala, standing in green, Wilson Romero, from Honduras, standing, and Christian, from Honduras, seated in gray, socialize outside the Annunciation House, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in El Paso, Texas. (Credit: Matt York/AP.)

Texas effort to shut down Catholic migrant shelter ‘unfounded’

Feb 22, 2024
John Lavenburg

Deadly fire at Juárez detention center shows ‘urgency’ of addressing migrant crisis, El Paso bishop says

Mar 29, 2023
John Lavenburg

New auxiliary highlights growing profile of America’s ‘border bishop’

Feb 9, 2023
John Lavenburg

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, celebrates Mass at St. Pius X Church in El Paso Sept. 23, 2019. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS.)

At border Mass above the Rio Grande, migrants who died are remembered

Nov 7, 2022
Rhina Guidos

Despite promises, little has changed for migrants under Biden administration

Dec 21, 2021
John Lavenburg

Border trip helps inform Iowa church’s ministry to migrants, bishop says

Nov 14, 2021
Barb Arland-Fye

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‘Toward a more perfect union’: Pope Leo XIV on 250 years of US independence

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