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Migration, Refugee Resettlement, and Mass Deportation: Moral, Human, and Policy Choices YouTube video by Global Georgetown

You can find the quote during the Q&A section here, although Seitz ALSO responds to Vance's suggestion that Catholic bishops are more concerned about their "bottom line" early on in the program: www.youtube.com/live/cbIp--H...

Bishop Seitz: Well, Pope Francis specifically raises these issues in his letter. So l'd refer you to that. He says that if we are to really understand the Ordo amoris, we need to go back to the parable of the Good Samaritan. So as Jesus so often did, he turns upside down the familiar kind of wisdom that people seem to operate under. He's certainly not saying we shouldn't love our family in a special way, but Christian love is outgoing. It is it is not what one might expect. It says radical, crazy things like love your enemy, and not only love one another, you know as they love you, you know, but rather Love one another as I have loved you.

And so there's so many examples in the Scripture where I think if I were to put words - I don't want to put words in Jesus mouth - but, but, but, I think he, you know, when, when people come up to him and say, your family and and your and your brothers and sisters are out there looking for you, Jesus says, Who are my mother and my brothers? You know? He turns it upside down and he says, you know, the only way that humanity is going to is going to get over these divisions and this hatred and so on is if they recognize that that person who is vulnerable, that person whom you have trouble loving, that's the one you're called to love, the rest will take care of itself.

NEW: Speaking on a panel at Georgetown tonight, Bishop Mark Seitz of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, who chairs the USCCB's Committee on Migration, was asked about Vice President JD Vance’s argument invoking ordo amoris to justify Trump’s immigration policies.

Seitz offered an impassioned rebuke:

“Human Dignity is Not Dependent on a Person's Citizenship or Immigration Status” Bishop Mark J. Seitz (USCCB), Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM (CHA), and Kerry Alys Robinson (CCUSA) have issued a statement in response to action taken by the Trump Ad...

Bishop Seitz, et al. writes: "All people are conceived with inherent dignity, reflecting the image of God. Through our parishes, shelters, hospitals, schools, [etc.], we recognize that this dignity is not dependent on a person's citizenship or #immigration status."
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Pope: “In a world “characterized by disinformation and polarization, as a few centers of power control an unprecedented mass of information,” beware of media that “generates not hope, but fear and despair, prejudice, resentment, fanaticism and even hatred.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...

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Protecting the Safety Net and Strengthening the Child Tax Credit
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And in appointing Consolata Sister Brambilla as the first woman prefect of a Vatican Dicastery (the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life) Pope Francis has just made history.

In appointing Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, the Holy Father has just selected one of the brightest and most capable clerics in the entire US church.

Pope Francis picks an advocate for church reform for Washington, DC Cardinal Robert McElroy is a scholar of American political history and its nexus with Catholic theology. The California native studied at Harvard and Stanford and brings pastoral experience at the San...

Cardinal Robert McElroy is a scholar of American political history and its nexus with Catholic theology. The California native studied at Harvard and Stanford and brings pastoral experience at the San Diego border. More from Michael Sean Winters.

Pope Francis taps Cardinal McElroy as Washington's new archbishop Pope Francis taps Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C. McElroy of San Diego is expected to succeed retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, who has led the Washington Archdio...

It's official: Pope Francis taps Cardinal McElroy as Washington's new archbishop.

I've dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system. Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss.

But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.

BREAKING: Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, changing them to life sentences.

It’s a victory for religious advocates and others who have pushed him to take the step.

Pope Francis today made a special appeal for those on death row in the United States, praying that their sentence can be "commuted, changed".

Francis has revised Catholic teaching to say the death penalty is "inadmissible" and should be abolished.

As Trump threatens mass deportations, Iowa’s Catholic Bishops issue letter saying “we want to assure you that you are not alone;” cites Pope’s migrants “are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity;” invokes Matt 25 we will “all be held accountable for the way we treated others.”

An English-language translation of the Final Document of the Synod has been published. (It's a "working translation" because as a magisterial teaching, the "official translation" may take more time.) I hope that you will read and pray over the fruit of our discernment www.synod.va/en/news/fina...

Proposed 2024 Mass Deportation Program Would Socially and Economically Devastate American Families - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) In this report, we highlight the devastation of mass deportation on both undocumented residents and their US citizen and legal noncitizen families and communities.

"...mass deportation threatens to break up nearly 5 million American families" Important report from the Center for Migration Studies; h/t Brian Fraga/National Catholic Reporter cmsny.org/publications...

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Tomorrow, Tuesday Nov 12, our Public Dialogue with Ryan Burge, Tom Reese SJ, Sabrina Rodriguez, and Judy Woodruff will explore “Faith and the Faithful in the 2024 Election: What Happened, Why, and What Now?” RSVP for the livestream at 7pm ET: catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/events/faith...

Wonderful to work with colleagues old and new at #Synod2023. Particularly grateful to meet so many women leaders from around the world and for their contributions to this gathering. What a remarkable moment in the life of our Church!