Leela Kuikel celebrates his father's birthday with his mother, his wife and their children. (Courtesy of Leela Kuikel)

How the US bishops' refugee program, now a JD Vance target, resettled a family

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Vice President JD Vance attacked the bishops for this resettlement program. Here's a success story: Leela Kuikel went from South Asian refugee to CEO of several U.S. companies.

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U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 in Washington. He signed a series of executive orders including on immigration, birthright citizenship and climate. Trump also signed an order directing the U.S. government to only recognize two sexes, male and female. (OSV News/Reuters/Carlos Barria)

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Bishops condemn Trump's immigration orders for stoking fear, anxiety

Catholic advocacy groups, southern border dioceses and the U.S. bishops' conference are expressing deep concern after President Trump signed a series of executive orders targeting immigration on his first week in the Oval Office.

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Vatican News

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Catholics will accept a common date for Easter in East, West, pope says

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reiterated the official position taken by St. Paul VI that if Eastern Christians agree on a way to determine a common date for Easter, the Catholic Church would accept it.

ByCindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
Vice President JD Vance speaks before swearing in Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others

In a viral Fox News interview, the vice president suggested that it is more Christian to prioritize your family over a stranger, but Jesus wanted us to demolish the categories that keep us from seeing each other as worthy of love in the first place.

ByKat Armas
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivers the invocation during U.S. President Donald Trump's swearing-in as the 47th U.S. president in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington Jan. 20, 2025. (OSV News/Saul Loeb, pool via Reuters)
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Dolan and Schönborn: A tale of two cardinals

In many respects, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and Cardinal Timothy Dolan have traveled similar paths to the most powerful office in the church, except for pope.  

ByChristopher White

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Editorial: JD Vance aims vulgar, undeserved cynicism at bishops over immigration

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After eyebrow-raising sermon to Trump, Bishop Budde beset with criticism and praise

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Thank you, Vice President Vance

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US bishops navigate new presidential administration: An NCR report from 1981

NCR Voices

Richard Rohr on the age of outrage: 'Even those who think they are angry, are really sad'

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The Supreme Court is pictured in Washington June 29, 2024. (OSV News/Reuters/Kevin Mohatt)

Where will the Supreme Court draw the church-state line in the Oklahoma school case?

NCR Voices

This case could be a vehicle by which the Supreme Court continues its effort to recalibrate church-state jurisprudence in ways that are more friendly to religions and religiously motivated plaintiffs.

JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others

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How do we educate democratically during a Trump presidency?

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Your letters: Vance, the bishops and Budde

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about Vice President JD Vance, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Bishop Mariann Budde's inauguration sermon. 

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Francis, the comic strip: Francis seeks advice from an expert in the suffering of immigrants and refugees.
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Francis, the comic strip: An expert in suffering

Francis, the comic strip: Francis seeks advice from an expert in the suffering of immigrants and refugees.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivers the invocation during U.S. President Donald Trump's swearing-in as the 47th U.S. president in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington Jan. 20, 2025. (OSV News/Saul Loeb, pool via Reuters)
View from the Vatican

Dolan and Schönborn: A tale of two cardinals

In many respects, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and Cardinal Timothy Dolan have traveled similar paths to the most powerful office in the church, except for pope.  

ByChristopher White
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Vatican News

Couple challenging Vatican bank’s ban on workplace marriages invoke pope's pro-family message

The Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring workplace marriages.

ByNicole Winfield, Associated Press
Francis, the comic strip: A brilliant model of reasoning and truth is touring the world.
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Francis, the comic strip: Truth and reason on tour

Francis, the comic strip: A brilliant model of reasoning and truth is touring the world.

ByPat Marrin

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Pope clears way for beatification of Georgia martyrs

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Pope Francis will not veto Trump's Vatican ambassador pick, officials say

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Vatican warns against AI being controlled by powerful companies

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Justice

Their sacred land was a gift for their courage. Yet Maká people in Paraguay fight for its ownership

Fray Bartolomé, as the Maká call it, was offered to them through a decree issued in 1944 by strongman Higinio Morínigo, then Paraguay's president. It was meant as a present, the Maká have said, to acknowledge their courage and the role they played during the Chaco War against Bolivia in the 1930s.

U.S. Jesuit Br. Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory is pictured at the observatory in Rome in this Dec. 12, 2007, file photo. (CNS photo/Annette Schreyer)
Science

Faith and the final frontier: Jesuit astronomer releases guide to the cosmos

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, who has led the observatory since 2015, shares his journey of becoming a Jesuit astronomer, explains the compatibility of science and faith and guides readers on how to look at the heavens in a new book released Feb. 4 by Loyola Press.

ByCarol Glatz, Catholic News Service
The "100 Leaders for 100% Clean Energy" rally on June 9 brought together leaders of various faith traditions in support of establishing a national clean energy standard as part of President Joe Biden's proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
Faith

Interfaith climate group shuts national office amid Trump environmental attacks

For more than two decades, Interfaith Power and Light has galvanized faith voices around climate change and environmental justice. Its leaders said their work as a top moral voice will continue through its 40 state and regional affiliates.

ByBrian Roewe
Pope Francis greets Lorna Gold, recently named new executive director of the Laudato Si Movement, during a private audience at the Vatican Jan 30, 2025. (OSV News photo/Vatican Media via CPP)
Faith

Climate activist Lorna Gold named new leader of Laudato Si' Movement

"I believe that given the crises we face today we have a responsibility to play our part and lead where we can. … I feel this is my time to lead," Gold said.

ByBrian Roewe

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Politics

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori

Justice

US bishop pleads for human solidarity with 'discarded' migrants,' sharing their stories

Viewpoints

US leaders claim to protect human life, but neglect to care for creation that sustains it

Culture

Mark Joseph Williams, an abuse survivor, speaks during a Nov. 15, 2022, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Book Reviews

Catholic clergy abuse survivor details his story in tender new book

In Torrent of Grace: A Catholic Survivor's Healing Journey after Clergy Abuse, Mark Joseph Williams contributes to a concerningly limited literary genre in the church: clergy abuse survivor narratives.

Aerial view of Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in flames on April 19, 1993, following a 51-day siege by the FBI and law enforcement. (Wikimedia Commons/FBI)
Book Reviews

'We Burn Daylight' uses fiction to explore the line between church and cult

In We Burn Daylight, Bret Anthony Johnston tells a fictional story similar to 1993 Waco siege to engage questions about religious freedom, state-sanctioned violence and the blurry line between church and cult.

ByElizabeth Hamilton
"Planetwalker" is a documentary about John Francis, an uncommon globetrotter who embarked on a yearslong silent trek for the environment. (Los Angeles Times)

Inspired by Thomas Merton, this 'Planetwalker' traversed the world in silent activism

"Planetwalker" is a documentary about John Francis, an uncommon globetrotter who embarked on a yearslong trek for the environment, with 17 of those years observing a vow of silence.

ByRyan Di Corpo
This is a scene from "Into Great Silence," a documentary by filmmaker Philip Groning about monks at a Carthusian monastery in the French Alps. (CNS/courtesy of Zeitgeist Films)
Book Reviews

New book combines reading with cinema for a highly spiritual experience

In A Whole Life in Twelve Movies, authors Kathleen Norris and Gareth Higgins seed fruitful conversation and fulfill the human need for "art that's steeped in the mystery of life."

ByMaryanne Hannan

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'Black Doves' turns a religious symbol on its head

Book Reviews

Trans theology is subject of recently released book, 'Glorious Bodies'

Notre Dame's first concert a 'moment of grace' for young composer of Marian choral piece

Sr. Baptista Rema, Salesian Sister of Mary Immaculate, at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Baromari, Sherpur, Bangladesh (Sumon Corraya)

Q&A with Sr. Baptista Rema, treating snakebite victims in Bangladesh

Salesian Sr. Baptista Rema is in charge of treating an average of one to two snakebite cases daily — around 400 patients annually at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Baromari, Sherpur, Bangladesh. 

Parishioners of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Meyer Grande, Haiti, wait outside their newly built church for services to begin. Parishioners built the structure, with support from members of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Winter Park, Fla. (Courtesy of St. Margaret Mary Church)

For a Florida parish, Haitian self-determination is paramount

"We don't go in and build houses. We don't go in and dig ditches. We go in and talk to the Haitian people about what their needs are," said Adrian Dominican Sr. Rosemary Finnegan in a recent interview.

ByChris Herlinger
A woman runs to take cover from gunfire during clashes between police and gangs in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP/Odelyn Joseph)

'People can't live in Haiti safely': Sisters struggle to serve surrounded by gangs

Haiti's problems are seemingly almost never-ending. Advocates — like congregational representatives at the U.N. — say the beleaguered country needs more attention and more support from the global community.

ByChris Herlinger
Columns

The vulnerability and strength of the Latin American migrant woman

In their journey to seek a better future for their families and children, migrant women from Latin America face dangers, abuse and discrimination. Yet, they hold onto hope and navigate challenges, much like the story of Ruth, reflects Sr. María Laura Torres. 

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Q&A with Sr. Florence Muia, providing hope, healing to those living with HIV/AIDS

LCWR responds with 'grave concern' to shifting government policies

Organization calls for respect of religious life in Nicaragua

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