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The Arizona bishops are calling state legislators to “keep in mind the most vulnerable among us” when considering new laws. The Arizona Catholic Conference, the Arizona bishops’ public policy arm,  issued a statement earlier today asking the state legislature to reconsider SB 1070 and HB 2632, identical bills that would require local police to enforce [...]

The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would extend the deadline for making contributions to school tuition organizations, the Arizona Catholic Conference reported today. The legislation, HB 2496, would extend the deadline to April 15 of the following year, giving Arizona taxpayers more time to contribute to tuition credit programs like the Catholic [...]

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, [...]

The 2009 National Workshop on Christian Unity, titled “Desert Pilgrimage,” started today at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Phoenix. With high-profile speakers representing different branches of Christianity, the group will examine a variety of topics related to ecumenism through April 30. You can read our advance coverage on www.catholicsun.org. Look for more in the [...]