As President Donald Trump boosts his rhetoric on the United States acquiring Greenland, whether by sale or force, ahead of a gathering of political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Catholic social teaching has something to say to the situation.

“Our place is with those on the margins. But that's not to say we shouldn't feel afraid or even unwilling. Christianity isn't about perfection, it's about conversion.”

“We are entering a new era of martyrdom...because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements, but for us — with our bodies — to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.” #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...

Given the nationality of many victims of Homan & his thugs, including an image of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe seems to be a calculated insult. Also insults Popes Leo & Francis, both of whom expressed strong support for immigrants. Strickland's involvement is, sadly, par for his erroneous course.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Isaiah: “I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.”

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

My enemies are listening to me because I speak to them words of love —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

"We are inextricably interdependent as humans, as neighbors...The greatest form of sin is feeling like we are separate from other people.” #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2026/01/07/m...

Those seduced & deceived by #Antichrist "end up exchanging good for evil & evil for good, becoming #greedy for money, #corrupt & #immoral, finally #violent & #homicidal ....This is the #totalitarian society of the Antichrist." (~Nicholas Fox Weber) #ICEMurderInMinneapolis bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

To all those Catholics still saying "America first," I would like to remind you that the official teaching of the Catholic Church is "the poor first." And neither Christ nor the Church are bound by borders.

Clown-show price controls. 🤡 @scottlincicome.bsky.social $BX

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

ICE’s cruelty is tearing our neighbors apart during the holiest time of the year. As faithful Americans, we demand that ICE stop attacking our neighbors. Watch our new ad with @protectdemocracy.org and then head over to LoveNotICE.org to add your name to our letter. #LoveNotICE

The case appears to be an example of a tactic that the Trump administration has used to pressure undocumented immigrants to leave the United States by separating them from their families after they refuse to comply with deportation orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...

"I believe that all bullies are frightened children who deserve to be well, and whom God wants to deliver from the spiritual forces of evil that have overtaken them," says David Black, who was paper sprayed by ICE officers in September. sojo.net/magazine/dec...

“She wasn't told why she was detained. She was shackled like some type of hardened criminal and deported to Honduras with no opportunity to have a court hearing or even talk to an attorney. If that isn’t unconstitutional, I don’t know what is." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"[An 8-year old boy wrote as a poem], 'If you're Brown/you're going down/ICE is coming/whether you're naughty or nice,' and the pain that an 8-year old must have felt. And I thought, 'What are we producing in our children?' "

I am a former immigration caseworker for Catholic Charities and its immigration resettlement programs. I think it's interesting to see how many Americans barely know what citizenship, permanent residence, and legal immigration status are. 1/8

“The key to fighting evil—in our world or the Upside Down—is to do so in community. Alone, resistance is impossible; together, we can fight the toughest battles.”

“Worst of the worst”

"In fact, in fighting for the world they want and practicing radical solidarity, the kids in Hawkins, Indiana, teach us exactly the lesson we need for right now." sojo.net/articles/cul...

“The typical taxpayer does not understand how expensive [deportation] is, how inefficient this is and also how inhumane it is…I think the misnomer is that we’ll put them on a Greyhound bus and drive them across the border to Mexico. But there are all these very expensive costs.”

“Prayers are welcome, but prayer alone will not close Broadview’s ICE processing facility. It will take action and clarity of purpose. It will take more people being willing to get involved and follow the lead of my fellow protesters.”

Church teaching is clear on the duties of immigrants regarding the how and why of immigration. Here's the thing: a lack of documentation does not diminish an immigrant's human dignity. In fact, a lack of documentation and the accompanying vulnerability increases our need to protect their dignity.

“It’s denial of food, it’s unsanitary conditions, and the people who are detained there are detained without any spiritual care whatsoever.” #PrayForAmerica www.ms.now/top-stories/...

At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a... @jackjenkins.me

@gustavoarellano.bsky.social: “May Catholics remind their fellow Americans anew of how powerful and righteous standing up for the stranger is.”

Echoes of Eugene Debs. "You may be a convict, but... There is more to the real religion of Jesus Christ in the spirit you breathe out to the world from behind your cruel prison bars than in all of the orthodox sermons ever preached." Idk this Minister's exact politics but this is real shit.

Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).

"When power decides who is allowed to stay and who is ordered to disappear, Jesus is crucified once again at the margins." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

The #promise of #America isn't #hate, #power, #patriarchy or "justice" serving corporations & oligarchs, but #justice that serves the poor, & a godlike #caring heart, as #Jesus taught: "Be you #compassionate as your Father in heaven is compassionate." #mercy #courage #truthtopower bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

“Where did we go wrong? When did the notion that we should protect our borders and regulate immigration devolve into a determination to unleash anonymous masked agents pulling people from cars, and to publicly celebrate the creation of true hellholes like the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility?”

NCR Editorial - What is American Catholicism in this moment of political crisis? “What we are witnessing is clearly contradictory not only to the heart of the Christian Gospel, but to the essence of other world religions as well.” #Trump #Catholic #ICE www.ncronline.org/opinion/what...

The bishops should not be "discussing immigration enforcement." They should be proclaiming the gospel which, on this issue, is clear and unequivocal. #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger #RebuildMyChurch

“The suburban apathy that has kept too many Southern Californians on the sidelines as immigration agents sweep into our cities was nowhere to be felt in Little Village. People poured out of businesses and their residences. Others looked out from rooftops.”

"[T]he situation is now worse because it is often Christians who are disappearing the poor. ... [W]e ignore Christ ... Pope Francis called for a social conversion toward the marginalized, but he went largely unheeded. ... In Dilexi te, the call continues." www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-poor-l...

MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: From the ballot box to the streets, Latinos are blowing the whistle on Trump’s reign. Share, porfas!

Pope was asked about migrants detained in Chicago not being able to receive communion: "I would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to their needs many times they have been separated from their families for a good amount of time, no one knows what’s happening.”

"We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago. For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations," writes @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social

Pope Leo offers his strongest rebuke yet against Trump's treatment of migrants in the U.S. sojo.net/articles/new...

Greg Boyle: “the measure of health in any community may well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.”

Being poor is not a crime. We can't just get rid of people who can't afford food and shelter. Once you accept that truth it's obvious the solution is food and housing assistance.

Bishop Seitz at Border Mass: “Right now, as we are gathered here at this imposing fence, the government is hunting migrants down with malice, running roughshod over constitutional rights and due process, tearing apart and uprooting families…” drive.google.com/file/d/12458...

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse. Share, porfas!

“If they are doing this to pastors who are praying [...] then it makes me shudder to imagine what they might be doing to our neighbors behind closed doors," says Rev. David Black. sojo.net/articles/int...

“When people see faith leaders standing in the line of fire, I hope they understand that it’s not because we seek attention or confrontation. Our presence...is meant to be a moral mirror. It reminds the world that this is not normal.” #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...

Reject the culture of fear and silence that dehumanizes. Join the One Church, One Family campaign to stand with migrants. Register your public witness at and learn more at 1family.us #OneChurchOneFamily #StandWithMigrants