From Our Shepherds:
Pastoral Statements on Poor and Vulnerable &
Immigration Policy
Poor and Vulnerable
- Bishops of G8 Countries Urge Their Leaders to Protect the Poor and Assist Developing Countries at July G8 Summit
- CA Bishops Urge Legislators Give Top Priority To Programs Serving Children, Disabled & Unemployed
- Pope Backs Nuns' Work to Stop Human Trafficking
- USCCB Official Applauds Passage of Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Urges Congress to Ensure Speedy Implementation
- Bishops Urge President-Elect Obama, Mexican President Calderon, to Protect Rights of Migrants, Address Root Causes of Migration
- Bishops Urge Congress, Bush Administration to Find Moral Response to Financial Crisis USCCB
- Bishops Of G8 Nations Urge Their Leaders To Address Global Poverty And Climate Change At July G8 Summit USCCB
- Men and Women Join Against Trafficking Zenit
- Bishop Wenski Calls For Priority For The Poor In Senate Climate Change Debate USCCB
- Indonesia Bishops Aims For Collaborative Action To Fight Human Trafficking UCAN
- Archbishop to UN: Economics must help poor
- Pope: Pray the the mentally handicapped not be margnalized Zenit
- U.S. Bishops Urge Priority For Poor Families In National Response To Economic Stress
- Pontiff: Time Has Come to Eliminate Hunger Addresses U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
- U. S Bishops urge congress to make changes to “Material Support” statute affecting refugee and asylum seekers
Immigration Policy
- Bishop Gavino Zavala: Advocating for comprehensive immigration reform and standing against SB 1070
- Ariz. Catholic bishops praise ruling against immigration law
- Migration Chairs of Mexican and U.S. Bishops’ Conferences Issue Joint Statement on President Calderon’s Visit to the United States
- Regional Bishops Issue Joint Statement on Migration
- Solving illegal immigration requires fixing economic causes, stresses Bishop Wester
- Immigration reform is not amnesty, Bishop Wester says about bishops’ position
- Archbishop Chaput: Arizona immigration law shows need for reform
- Hispanic Bishops Urge Congress to Include Immigrants on Health Care Reform
- US Bishops call for immigration reform
- Cardinal McCarrick brings immigration reform message to Senate
- Cardinal George, Bishops Ask President Obama, Congress To Enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform Before End Of 2009
- Archbishop Chaput: Being pro-life means working for immigration reform
- U.S. Bishops: Homosexual relationships should not be included in immigration law that protects families
- US bishops back comprehensive health coverage for illegal immigrants
- Bishops Call for Immigration Reform
- End immigration raids, cardinal tells president
- Cardinal Mahoney Urges Obama to Bring Illegal Immigrants ‘Out of the Shadows’
- Arkansas Bishop Anthony Taylor: Human Rights of Undocumented Immigrants
- U.S. immigration policy must be addressed in this election, Orlando bishop states CNA
- Archbishop Gomez: ‘intensive’ community service, not deportation, appropriate for illegals CNA
- Archbishop Chaput asks politicians, what about comprehensive immigration reform? CNA
- Bishops Ask Homeland Security, President Bush To Abandon Use Of Worksite Enforcement Raids USCCB
- Pope calls for 'effective political response' to immigration crisis
- Cardinal Mahony suggests how the Church can “reframe” the debate on immigration CalCatholic
- Cardinals say immigration at 'dark moment' in US but call for hope
- Comprehensive Immigration Reform To Be A Major Topic At National Migration Conference USCCB
- Bishops Urge Respect for Humanity of Migrants Zenit
- Pope Urges the Welcoming of Immigrants, Life Zenit
- The Immigration Myth Interview With Director of US Bishops
- Church moves to help families after Iowa's largest immigration raid CNS
- Connecticut Bishops Issue Statement on Immigration CTCatholicConf
- Pope Benedict’s immigration comments earn Mahony’s praise but Tancredo’s censure CalCatholic
- Pope is right to urge humane treatment for immigrants SLTrib
- Bishops call for end to 'exploitation' of undocumented farmworkers
- USCCB Migration Committee Meets With Top Enforcement Official To Discuss Immigration Raids, Concern For Children
- Catholic bishop to file brief in illegal-immigration lawsuit TulsaWorld
- U.S. Bishops Respond To Anti-Immigrant Tax Provision, Raids
- US Bishops: Immigration Laws Hypocritical
- Archbishop Jose Gomez, Archbishop of San Antonio: Immigration In the 21st Century: Its Root Causes and the Obligations of Catholic Social Teaching
- Religious groups ask Colorado legislature for respectful immigration debate
- Missouri Bishops' letter on immigrants changes debate
- Arizona Bishops on Immigration Policy: Reform, Not Sanctions
- USCCB migration chairman expresses concern about direction and tone of national immigration debate (USCCB)
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