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Catholics interested in the Church’s work with immigrants don’t have to go to the border to learn more — they can go to St. Paul Parish Sept. 20. That’s where Jesuit Father Pete Neely will discuss the vital work of the Kino Border Initiative, a collaborative effort serving the physical and spiritual needs of the [...]

Tomorrow 13 volunteers from the humanitarian groups No More Deaths, Samaritans and Humane Borders will be arraigned on littering charges in federal Court. The 13, including Franciscan Father Jerome Zawada, were cited on July 9 for placing clean drinking water along known migrant trails in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, which lies along the [...]

Earlier this summer, I traveled to the border with a group from All Saints Catholic Newman Center. We went to Agua Prieta, Mexico to see some of the work being done for deported immigrants. But perhaps even more interesting was Café Justo coffee roaster located in that city. Café Justo is a coffee grower cooperative [...]

Nearly five years ago, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration and The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, INC. Board of Directors, made immigration reform a priority. The campaign, they decided, would emphasize  legalization of undocumented immigrants living in the United States illegally. A diverse group of Catholic organizations with national networks joined the U.S. bishops’ in [...]

At last weeks National Workshop on Christian Unity, Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas spoke about the Church’s position on immigration reform. The bishop, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,  explained the U.S. Catholic bishops’ five principles to guide immigration policy. They’re the same five principles we’ve been hearing for a while now, [...]