MIAMI — Miami’s top Catholic leader is continuing to advocate for a three-year extension of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants in the United States, calling the humanitarian crisis in Haiti a “house on fire” that would be “unconscionable” to send people back to.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski ...Read more

As Florida continues state executions at a record-setting pace, Catholic leaders are encouraging the public to oppose the death penalty and instead promote a “culture of life.”

On Monday, the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops released a pastoral letter urging Florida elected officials to end capital punishment, arguing that the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The canal that flows between Fort Lauderdale resident Harry Rozelle’s house and his church is so infested with bacteria that his teenage son, Cruz, was hospitalized after swimming in it three years ago.

As he tended to his sick son, who had contracted E. coli and salmonella from the polluted waterway, Rozelle thought...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento religious leaders can no longer hold pro-immigrant monthly prayer vigils outside the John Moss Federal Building downtown.

A security guard at the building delivered the news last week to Sacramento Area Congregations Together, a coalition of faith-based community organizations. The group began organizing the ...Read more

The Diocese of Charlotte wants Catholics attending SSPX chapels to know two things: You’re welcome back, and you shouldn’t keep going.

Nearly three weeks after the Vatican declared the Society of Saint Pius X in schism following its unauthorized consecration of four bishops in Switzerland, Charlotte Bishop Michael Martin issued his first ...Read more