American Cardinal Joseph Tobin has criticised President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. He has called on American Catholic leaders to resist the Trump administration’s views. He says “you really have to believe in inflicting cruelty on innocent people to choose to support the policies we’ve seen in recent months.” Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’
America’s bishops call for compassion and family unity
Monday, March 13th, 2017
America’s bishops are calling for compassion and family unity in the face of President Donald Trump’s immigration laws. Archbishop Gomez, who is the vice president of the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops, said immigration is the “human rights test of our time”. Commenting on Trump’s immigration laws, he said having a policy that solely focuses Read more
Each of us has a migration story
Friday, September 9th, 2016
The Catholic Bishops of New Zealand have set aside a week in September for Social Justice Week. In 2016 it runs from 11-17 September. In 2015 the number of persons living in a country other than where they were born reached 244 million for the world as a whole, a 41 per cent increase compared to Read more
Irish hierarchy saw opposition to clericalism as secularism
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
A former president of Ireland has said that an entrenched clericalism in that country used to view any opposition to itself as militant secularism. Speaking in an interview on the Crux website, Mary McAleese said Ireland had, at least in part, been dissuaded from anti-immigrant movements because of its rich Christian culture. She was asked Read more
US bishops support calls to keep immigrant families together
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
American Catholic bishops joined various faith groups in calling on the US Supreme Court to give temporary relief to undocumented persons in the country who are eligible for deportation. “Courts have repeatedly recognized that there is a public interest in maintaining stable families and communities,” the bishops said in an amicus brief filed on March Read more
Donald Trump reacts to Pope questioning his faith
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has labelled Pope Francis’s questioning of his Christianity as “disgraceful”. Francis was asked in a press conference on a papal flight from Mexico for his reaction to Mr Trump’s proposal of a US-Mexico border wall, and what he might say to US Catholics supporting Mr Trump. Francis said that he Read more
- No, Internet, the Vatican is not a walled city
- Should a Pope get involved in politics – of course he should
- Francis Vs Trump
- Pope Francis’s comments will only help Trump
- Cardinal: US immigration policy must combine compassion and safety
- Archbishop Gomez: The Pope’s focus is human suffering, not Donald Trump
- Trump’s own Christian denomination defies him on immigration policy
At Mexico-US border, Pope prays, delivers stinging critique
Friday, February 19th, 2016
Pope Francis has prayed at the US-Mexico border, blessing people gathered across the Rio Grande River in Texas. On Wednesday, the final day of his visit to Mexico, Francis went up a ramp overlooking the river and the border, to a makeshift memorial representing migrants killed in their attempts to reach the US. Shoes of Read more
Donald Trump rips Pope over Mexico border visit
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has criticised Pope Francis for planning to visit the border between the US and Mexico this week. On a Fox Business Network show, last week, Mr Trump was asked what he made of Pope Francis being at the border, standing with migrants. “So I think that the Pope is a Read more
- Trump’s anti-Catholic rhetoric rises before South Carolina primary
- Pope to Mexican leaders – remember your young ones
- Pope warns Mexican church against dealing with ‘today’s pharoahs’ at the expense of the poor
- The unscripted message of Pope Francis in Mexico
- Under the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Francis calls for a caring church
Pope Francis speaks truth to power
Friday, October 16th, 2015
The first pope in history to address a joint session of Congress, Pope Francis, defended the human right of masses of oppressed and poor people to immigrate. “We must not be taken aback by their number, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can Read more
At Congress, Pope urges US to heal wounded world
Friday, September 25th, 2015
In an historic address to a joint session of the US Congress, Pope Francis challenged US lawmakers and the nation to heal the “open wounds” of the world. The 45-minute address by Pope Francis on September 24 was the first time a Roman Pontiff had addressed this body of US lawmakers. The Pope’s speech featured a Read more