Peter Feuerherd

A big message of the Trump campaign — promising to deport millions of undocumented immigrants — has the numbers wrong, would separate families, and impact the U.S. economy, advocates warn.

"We will walk with Jesus Christ in the streets," Tim Busch, Napa Institute founder and chairman, said of the eucharistic procession held during Napa's week of business seminars in NYC focusing on faith and capitalism.

In recent years, the growing number of Catholic convert celebrities reads like a "Who's Who" of MAGA and conservative thinkers, advocates and cultural figures.

Comments by former President Donald Trump about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, have generated hatred in the city, and insulted Haitian immigrants and longtime Springfield residents, say Catholic officials.

Catholics like urban planner Jamie Kralovec say congestion pricing, like the plan recently halted in New York, is a way to live out the teachings of Laudato Si'. Not all Catholics agree the idea is rooted in justice.

"I am a gay American," Jim McGreevey said in 2004, announcing his resignation as governor of New Jersey. Two decades later, the cradle Catholic is amid a return to politics as a mayoral candidate in Jersey City.

In Cincinnati, new elementary school will follow "Nativity Jesuit" model including more male role models, longer school days and a connection with Catholic schools in Ghana.

St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Brooklyn is located near an encampment with about 2,000 migrants. Amid the ongoing debate on immigration, the parish works to help the migrants and live out its social justice mission.

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, the Detroit prelate who for many American Catholics defined faith-based social justice activism in the post-Vatican II church, died April 4. He was 94. 

Some 94 million people live in coastal areas in the U.S., despite storms like Sandy. While communities have rebuilt after natural disasters, climate change and rising oceans present challenges to long-term planning.

A small group of New Yorkers is volunteering to protect piping plovers, a threatened species in their own backyard. The group tries to keep beachgoers away from protected dunes and sand harboring the long-legged bird.

As a reflection of Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry's influence, the order's retreat house in New York, now undergoing extensive renovations, will reopen next year with a renewed ministry aimed at offering an environmental and social response to the cries of both the poor and the Earth.

At St. Elizabeth of the Hill Country Parish in Boone, North Carolina, Fr. Brendan Buckler is among a number of pastors in the Charlotte Diocese who are dubbed restorationists; some parishioners do not feel welcomed by the old-fashioned liturgical tradition.

Much of Thomas Merton's writing on civil rights remained an afterthought, until the murder of George Floyd in May, and subsequent protests. 2020 has seen Catholics return to Merton's words on race.

At the conclusion of each Mass at St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit church in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, people are invited to recite a pledge to uphold racial justice.

Those who went through seminary for the Newark Archdiocese during McCarrick's tenure already knew of his long history of sexual abuse, with the Vatican report a kind of "imprimatur" validating their experiences.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York's 14th District said she receives inspiration on issues such as health care and climate change from her Catholic faith as well as political ideology.

The battle for New York's 14th District offers a study of contrasts between two Catholics: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and John Cummings, a former police officer and a teacher for 22 years.

Outrage against Trump immigration statements and policies, or equating the Black Lives Matter protests with Latinos, will not persuade reluctant Latinos who lean Republican, according to a polling expert.

Suspended over allegations of sexual exploitation of a woman, Fr. Jeremy Leatherby was excommunicated only after he refused to acknowledge Pope Francis and Sacramento's Bishop Soto during the Eucharistic Prayer.