Overview
- The statement from the annual meeting in Baltimore rejects the 'indiscriminate mass deportation of persons' and calls for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence.
- Bishops describe troubling detention-center conditions and report parishioners living in fear, including parents worried about being arrested on the way to school and families already separated.
- The measure passed with 216 votes in favor, five against and three abstentions, underscoring an uncommon level of institutional consensus.
- Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, has recently criticized the U.S. approach to migrants, reinforcing the Church’s moral concerns on migration.
- Many senior Republicans are Catholics, including Vice President JD Vance, and the bishops this week elected Archbishop Paul Coakley as USCCB president, who voiced support for the text.