A Salvadoran Holy Family looking for shelter. I don’t remember buying this but it was a nice surprise when I found it while cleaning this week. #Advent

I’m going to make this my 2026 goal

INBOX: World Relief, an evangelical Christian organization, comes out against the pausing of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, which the Trump admin froze after it was learned that the Brown University/MIT shooting suspect (a Portuguese national) reportedly entered the country that way.

For sister who can’t see, this sculpture of Our Lady of #Guadalupe has allowed her to “see” the beloved image via touch and “with the heart.” www.globalsistersreport.org/sister-who-c...

Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR - At Washington conference, attorneys address an unsettling new era on immigration. "We gather today in unprecedented times." #immigration #law #Catholic #migrants www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/wa...

apnews.com/article/sist... Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Cardinal Robert McElroy wasted no time pointing out that this year's World Day for Migrants and Refugees is not like the others. “We are confronting…an unprecedented assault upon millions of immigrant men and women and families in our midst, he said. www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/dc...

At #goalkeepers25 event, Bill Gates said “it is tragic that we see vaccine skepticism,” says danger, too, is that other countries will follow. Says worries over vaccines are unfounded.

"The Gospel is addressed to everyone, and it doesn't condemn people, classes, conditions, or categories, but rather idolatries, such as the idolatry of wealth that produces injustice [and] insensitivity to the cry of those who suffer." #PopeFrancis #Hope

In NYC today for #Goalkeepers2025 where faith leaders, His Highness Khalifa Muhammad Sanusi II, Emir of Kano, and Rick Warren talk about the need for different sectors to work together as the world will see a projected 5 million child deaths that could have been prevented.

A giant in the church in Central America, #Jesuit Fr “Chema” Tojeira died this morning in Guatemala, his work and life too extensive for this space. R.I.P.

At DC’s Union Station this morning on poster for National Book Fest

Miami priest on religious worker visa denied entry and looks like it took Miami archbishop @ThomasWenski to get him get back in. #immigration #Catholic

OH on bus at Dupont “ohmygod , they have chicken nuggets and caviar. I need to take myself there today.”

A lot of folks want to claim the new pope as one of their own. But more than a nationality, consecrated life and the charism of his Augustinian order, just as they shaped Francis as a Jesuit, have also shaped the new pope, say folks who know him www.globalsistersreport.org/religious-li...

I started out in the colonnade but it’s always better to be among the people of God. A joyful celebration today for #popeleoxiv and his first #reginacoeli prayer

This evening in Rome, the one group that says it’s the only marginalized group Pope Francis did not open a dialogue with, @ordainwomen.bsky.social, prayed for the #conclave at the #jesuit parish known as Caravita. #womensordination #catholic

Lies and rumors about cardinals abound ahead of conclave. The biggest target seems to be frontrunner Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR … #conclave #Catholic #Vatican www.ncronline.org/vatican/conc...

Two days before #conclave

Before Mass at his titular church in Rome, I asked Cardinal Tobin whether he had anything to say of #Trump image as #pope. “It’s not worth commenting on” he said

Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR - Catholic outrage grows over 'Pope Trump' image. The New York State Catholic Conference said there is “nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President. Do not mock us.” #Trump #conclave #Catholic www.ncronline.org/news/catholi...

I’m always the reporter among the masses and saw pope Francis in the popemobile in Panama, Cuba and Rome. This made me so sad at the end, to see the vehicle that carried his coffin and know this is done.

A man looks out into the plaza outside of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome April 26, 2025 above a sign that says “Thank you, Francis.” Thousands filled the perimeter near the basilica before the pontiff’s burial there.

An Argentine and Guatemalans living in Rome showed up to say a final goodbye to Pope Francis whom they consider a friend to the country’s migrant community. But they also expressed worries about the next pope to come.

Sr. Carol Gilbert said there wasn't a better place this year than in front of the White House to illustrate #HolyWeek readings, about the injustice that visited an innocent man, one wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of the powerful. #Abrego www.globalsistersreport.org/social-justi...

Protesters outside the Heritage Foundation to women leaving the building: “I hope you’ll be laughing like that in hell, ladies, cuz that’s where you’re going.” DC so tense right now.

La voz del #papafrancisco desde el hospital ❤️

At #Ashwednesday, Washington’s Archbishop-elect Robert McElroy had folks pray a decade of the rosary for @pontifexes.bsky.social’s health #popefrancis

Behind me at #ashwednesday2025 Mass at St Matthew’s Cathedral, someone with @ordainwomen.bsky.social button, who said the group will have Lent event March 9 at 11 am at DC’s DuPont ⭕️

Sr. Lucia Caram, who has worked extensively to help war victims in Ukraine, said on X this is time for all to #standwithUkraine, "what happened today has no name," she said of events at the White House. The world can't ignore the number of victims, nor the fact that Russia is the aggressor

A few weeks ago I interviewed Ivania Cruz in El Salvador for an upcoming story on the Catholic church’s campaign against #mining. I was stunned to see that last night her home was ransacked by police, who also detained one of her colleagues.

Using billboards, the Sisters of the Humility of Mary in Pennsylvania, are speaking up for migrants and refugees. They hope drivers and others who see this billboard will reflect on the words of the Gospel #immigration

Watching “Severed” from the beginning and I’m starting to think: “it’s not so bad.”

At @GUcstpubliclife talk, @BishopSeitz reaches out to JD Vance to talk about comments he made about bishops (resettling folks for the money). “He clearly has been misinformed.” #immigration

Great to see Amigo de Frodo (Bishop Daniel Flores) here!

I was just thinking about the Pat Collins snow stick! Thanks, @nbcwashington.com

Spotted on my morning walk. “No a la migra” was washed out by the rain.

Something I haven't forgotten. www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan just turned 75. Today is the day he must submit his resignation to Pope Francis. We will see now how long it takes for the Pope to accept his resignation.

Cutting funding to programs that help people worldwide and laying off hard-working staff is “an ugly way of moving into office,” said a Catholic supporter of #USAID who showed up to the rally www.ncronline.org/news/rally-s...

In conferring an honorary degree upon Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, OP, at Georgetown University, its interim president recalled something the Dominican has said that may prove comforting in these times: “The more perilous the future, the more urgent it is to seek the common good together.”

Bishops of Central America express “solidarity and communion” with #Nicaragua on the Feast of the #immaculateconception as Nicaraguans face a “challenging reality”

The president of the largest organization of religious life in #latinamerica expressed her full support for religious life in #Nicaragua. At the conclusion of a meeting in Córdoba, Sr. Liliana Franco told consecrated life in Nicaragua watching: “we are with you.”

This is seriously my life covering meetings of women and men religious in Latin America: one moment it’s reflection mode, deep thoughts and molding hearts of clay, and then… (real footage from today)

A sobering start to CLAR Congress of #religiouslife in #LatinAmerica this AM, where women and men religious gathered in Córdoba, Argentina are sharing the region’s challenges, many arising from inequality. #catholicism

Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social - A judge in El Salvador has ruled that the country's former president, and 10 others, will stand trial for the wartime killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter in 1989. #Catholic #ElSalvador #Jesuit www.ncronline.org/news/el-salv...