Immigration

Immigration society welcomes the migrant senior

Quinton Amundson · June 5, 2025

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) is nearly six months into a three-year pilot project designed to improve the quality of life and social integration of migrant seniors.

Catholic migrant advocates 'deeply alarmed' by Trump use of Alien Enemies Act

Kate Scanlon · March 18, 2025

President Donald Trump on March 15 invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself broad authority under a wartime law to deport people allegedly associated with a Venezuelan gang, sparking a legal battle and prompting concern from Catholic immigration advocates.

The Mustard Seed

Christianity advances a world of love

Glen Argan · February 22, 2025

Pope Francis’ letter rebuking US President Donald Trump for failing to respect the dignity of migrants who move to the United States seeking to escape oppression comes in the wake of questionable theologizing by Vice-President JD Vance.

Editorial

Clarity on immigration debate

Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski · February 19, 2025

The Trump administration has been very busy and has, not unexpectedly, generated much discussion and to be sure controversy.

U.S. bishops sue Trump administration, say halting refugee resettlement funds will cause harm

Maria-Pia Chin · February 19, 2025

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance.

Migration policies built on force ‘will end badly’

Carol Glatz · February 11, 2025

Pope Francis is urging U.S. Catholics and people of goodwill to not give in to “narratives” that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to migrants and refugees.

Church leaders pledge migrant support

David Agren · January 22, 2025

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago reassured migrants in his archdiocese that reports of a possible mass deportation by a new administration in Washington that would target the Chicago area “wound us deeply.”

Hamilton spreads cheer to the newcomer

Luke Mandato · December 19, 2024

With the help of The Good Shepherd, the Diocese of Hamilton’s Office for Refugees is ensuring new Canadians are not left behind this Christmas season.

Immigration pivot disappoints migrant advocates

Quinton Amundson · November 26, 2024

The recent mood swing against immigration, in a nation of immigrants whose people have always been welcoming to the outsider, is disappointing to those who work with migrants, but the hope is this will not endure.