Rhina Guidos

The political ads that aired in the Washington metro region in the fall of 2017 made many stop in their tracks. 

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said laws need to be changed to fix the country's broken immigration system, but in the process, immigrants should not be demonized.

The Panamanian archbishop helping to organize World Youth Day said the 2019 celebration in his country will invite youth of other faiths to join in.

The longest and most passionate discussion on the first day of the fall assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 13 focused on how to help immigrants.

Though the Catholic Church has responded to racism for many years, some leaders and church institutions have at times been part of the problem, said Bishop George Murray.

As the U.S. bishops were beginning their fall assembly in Baltimore, also marking their 100th anniversary as a conference, a couple of nonviolent protesters gathered nearby.

Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, Texas, told his fellow bishops Nov. 13 that more than 100 U.S. dioceses have participated in the "Share the Journey" campaign.

Calling racism the country's "national disease" and "our greatest injustice," Catholic speakers at an annual gathering of young adults asked the group to call out injustice.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence criticized the United Nations' efforts to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East in a speech Oct. 25.

Nearly a week after the hurricane with 155 mile-an-hour winds hit the Caribbean island, much of Puerto Rico remains without power with its road and landscape devastated.

The U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 25 canceled a hearing on the constitutionality of Trump's travel ban after government officials unveiled a new version of the prohibitions.

Catholic dioceses and charities are quickly organizing to help in the aftermath of a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall with heavy rains and winds of 130 miles per hour.

On Sept. 23, Oklahomans will get a front row seat to the beatification of Fr. Stanley Rother, an ordinary man who died extraordinarily as a martyr in Guatemala while serving in a mission.

Updated: Catholic bishops called for peace after three people died and several others were injured following clashes between pacifists, protesters and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 11 and 12.

After hearing about the plight of a cancer-stricken child whose mother was facing imminent deportation, Texas Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso decided to pay the pair a visit at the hospital.

The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program gives recipients a temporary reprieve from deportation and employment authorization in the United States — as long as the applicant meets certain criteria.