Brian Roewe

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday, allowing immigrant families to remain together, a pivot after officials spent days defending the administration's zero tolerance policy.

Dan Misleh of Catholic Climate Covenant calls the declaration "an unprecedented effort by the U.S. Catholic community to step into the void" left by Trump's Paris exit announcement.

After debate about the future of their voter guide the U.S. bishops opted to supplement rather than revise or issue a new document, resisting a push from a group of bishops who believed the current document is outdated.

Incremental changes to the U.S. bishops' guiding document on addressing sexual abuse of minors by clergy were approved June 14 during the prelates' annual spring assembly.

The U.S. bishops began their annual spring assembly by condemning policies from the Trump administration that have separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The 40-day campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience entered its fourth week with actions in Michigan, Kentucky and Washington, many of them led by religious leaders. Their goal is to change the moral conversation in the United States.

Pope Francis and Vatican officials plan to meet with some of the world's leading oil executives this week, in what appears as an effort to lobby the industry to take the dangers of climate change more seriously.

"While progress continues to be made, there are worrisome signs for the future revealed in this year's audit that cannot be ignored," wrote the chairman of the bishops' National Review Board.

A $210 million settlement has been reached in the bankruptcy of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese, what attorneys for survivors of clergy sexual abuse are calling the "largest settlement ever reached in a Catholic bankruptcy case." 

More than 500 of the state's scientists and religious leaders signed onto the faith and science joint appeal for climate action. Stating they were "motivated by the climate crisis," the two contingents vowed to work together to urge all sectors of civic life to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

During the second week of the revived Poor People's Campaign, more than 100 people participated in a Washington rally, demanding early voting, same-day registration and other safeguards to protect democracy against "surgical racism."

The bill, opposed by numerous faith groups, would have attached stricter work requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and slashed funding by as much as $20 billion.

The interfaith prayer service was held as Congress considers a new farm bill that would dramatically scale back funding and access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The search process has begun for the next compliance auditor for the U.S. bishops' clergy sexual abuse policies.

The Catholic Climate Covenant's campaign aligns with the broader "We Are Still In" coalition that formed after Trump's announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Creation care teams at the parish level and larger scale, eco education groups offer Catholics ways to get started on the difficult yet critical work of reducing waste and changing culture.

Inspired by their reading of Laudato Si', Catholic communities and institutions are increasingly recognizing that reducing waste is a key way to practice their faith. They are leading by example to promote awareness of the throwaway culture.

Part One of a three-part series: Single-use plastics are a symptom of what Pope Francis calls our 'throwaway culture'; parishioners are working to reduce waste at the local level with practical, simple steps.

The mission of the Laudato Si' Project is "to restore people's connection to the natural world." To do that, it focuses on three core themes: education, stewardship and recreation.

A group of priests, religious and laypeople who support abuse survivors, known as Catholic Whistleblowers, sent a letter on Easter to the U.S. bishops' conference asking for seven reforms to the 2002 Dallas Charter and to the Essential Norms policy for handling  sexual abuse allegations.