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Law-abiding migrants now at greater deportation risk, experts say
Stories are emerging of migrants deported despite their regular contact with immigration authorities and lack of criminal records. The Trump administration's goal, say experts, "is not to legalize 11 million undocumented persons but to get rid of them."
Blessed Oscar Romero could be declared a saint next year
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia said he hoped the Vatican would complete its review of an alleged miracle attributed to the intercession of the martyred Archbishop Romero, clearing the way for his canonization.
Catholic, Orthodox patriarchs seek help, say Mideast churches in danger
Offering "a prophetic cry," leaders called the displacement of Christians from the Middle East "a genocidal project, a humanitarian catastrophe and a plague of the earth's civilization."
Nazi salute ‘compounds the obscenity’ of racism, Archbishop Chaput says
Last weekend's violence in Charlottesville matters because it's a snapshot of our public unraveling into real hatreds brutally expressed and a collapse of restraint, the archbishop said in a statement.
Venezuelan cardinal rejects U.S. military intervention
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's push for an assembly designed to rewrite the nation's constitution has led to violent demonstrations. President Donald Trump threatened "a possible military option."
Clergy assignment changes announced
Archbishop Charles Chaput approved the following nine appointments for priests and a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Bishops ask for peace after white nationalist rally turns deadly
"Only the light of Christ," said a Virginia bishop and a former Philadelphia priest, "can quench the torches of hatred and violence." Bishop Francis DiLorenzo condemned the violence of a protest that left one person dead and almost two dozen injured.
Nun known as ‘Mother Teresa of Pakistan’ to receive state funeral
The government of Pakistan will accord a state funeral to Sister Ruth Katharina Martha Pfau, a German-born member of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary who devoted her life to eradicating leprosy in Pakistan.
Cardinal calls Salvadorans to reflect on true meaning of martyrdom
The country's real martyrs, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador said, "never stained their hands with blood," and they were "men and women who strove to love God and their neighbors."
Sister Helen Garvey, former LCWR president, dies at 82
Sister Helen Maher Garvey, former president of both the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and of her order, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, died Aug. 6. She was 82.