Pope and Bishops Speak Out on Immigration Issue

Pope Leo XIV Urges Humane Treatment of Immigrants, Calls for Heeding U.S. Bishops’ Message – The Pope replied that immigrants must be treated with dignity even if they lack legal status.

U.S. Bishops Issue a “Special Message” on Immigration from Plenary Assembly in Baltimore –The bishops issued a Special Message addressing their concern for the evolving situation impacting immigrants in the United States. It marked the first time in twelve years the USCCB invoked this particularly urgent way of speaking as a body of bishops.

Below is an Excellent Commentary on Catholic Teachings on Immigration

A Catholic Response to the Immigration and Deportation Debate COMMENTARY: This approach to immigration is morally grounded, theologically sound and capable of fostering genuine dialogue.

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Religious Freedom, the first freedom, is under attack in our nation and around the world. 

Click here to read the monthly First Freedom News by the USCCB Committee For Religious Freedom to keep informed on this important issue. 

The Conference wants to share this article from the Hartford Courant concerning the growth of the Catholic Church in Connecticut

Attendance surges at Catholic churches in Connecticut, Archdiocese says – Hartford Courant 11/3/2025

    People are returning in droves to the Catholic Church in Connecticut, reversing a decades-long decline as particularly younger people search for deeper meaning and peace in a divisive world, priests in the state say.

Overall, attendance in the Archdiocese of Hartford has increased 6% since 2021 .., 

Click here to read full article.

Conference Releases 2025 Annual Abortion Report

– Number of Abortions Increase in Connecticut

– Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Misleads Public on Finances

–  Pro-Life Pregnancy Care Centers Continue to Meet a Vital Need in Our State

CCC Abortion Report 2025

USCCB RELEASES STATEMENT  ON IMMIGRANTS

“We Stand in Firm Solidarity with Our Immigrant Brothers and Sisters”

In solidarity with immigrants, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the USCCB, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Migration, and Bishop Jaime Soto, chairman of the board for Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., issued a statement of pastoral concern.

Read the statement

Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time

Pope Francis has long expressed the Church’s opposition to gender identity ideology. An ideology not only in opposition to the natural law of God, but also not supported by natural science.  

   The Pontiff warned that transgenderism is one of the “most dangerous ideological colonization.” Pope Francis reiterated his opposition to transgenderism on March 2023 to an Argentinian newspaper, La Nacion. He warned that it is a “dangerous ideology” and argued that its proponents are naïve if they believe they are on the “path to progress. Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations. Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women.”
   Addressing participants in March 2024 at the international Symposium, “Man-Woman: Image of God.” Pope Francis described so-called gender ideology as the “ugliest danger” of our time, because it cancels out all differences that make humanity unique. To cancel these differences “is to erase humanity. Man and woman, instead, exist in a fruitful ‘tension,'” he said.

Catholic Teaching on Racism in Our Country

The issue of racism is prominent in the current discourse about our nation and the call for equality and respect. On November 14, 2018, long before the current social crisis, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops realized a pastoral letter on racism.

We encourage you to read “Open Wide Our Hearts -the enduring call to love“

Connecticut Catholic Bishops Release Pastoral Letter entitled “Respect Life Month” 2020 and the 25th Anniversary of “The Gospel of Life”

November 20th, 2020|

  Connecticut Catholic Bishops Release Pastoral Letter entitled “Respect Life Month” 2020 and the 25th Anniversary of “The Gospel of Life” October 18, 2020       The Bishops’ letter addresses the important role Catholic teaching places on the value of [...]

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