In the Media
The Season of Faithful Witness is already receiving attention across the country. Here are some recent articles and features highlighting the campaign and the growing movement of Catholics answering this pastoral emergency of hope.
Pope Leo: Keep Beautiful Witness of Corpus Christi Processions Alive
(Vatican News) — Pope Leo XIV has encouraged the faithful to keep alive the public witness of faith made visible in Eucharistic processions, recalling that this week the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as Corpus Christi.
Encuentro nacional de pastoral hispana pide acompañar al migrante y ser una sola voz
En el mes de mayo, cientos de líderes de la pastoral hispana de Estados Unidos participaron de una jornada virtual donde además de hablar de los desafíos que enfrenta el pueblo migrante, compartieron los signos de esperanza que ven es sus comunidades y se unieron en oración.
A Season of Faithful Witness: Catholics Are Learning to Walk Together Again
The organization Catholics in Communion is helping people rediscover practices of public faith that are prayerful, communal, sacramental, and rooted in human dignity.
Earlier this year, Catholics began gathering outside detention centers, in parish halls, on sidewalks, after Masses, and in neighborhood streets across the country with a shared question: What does faithful witness look like in this moment?
Dozens of people gathered on May 2, 2026, for a protest outside an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility
Dozens of people gathered on May 2, 2026, for a protest outside an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility on the northwest side of Indianapolis. Catholics in Communion organized the protest to call for an end to ICE detention at the Miami Correctional Facility near Bunker Hill, Indiana.
Agreement allows daily pastoral access at Illinois ICE facility, faith leaders say
A group of Catholic and Christian faith leaders said it has been granted daily access to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Broadview, Illinois, since May 15 under a milestone agreement with immigration officials.
The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), a Chicago-based Catholic and Christian advocacy group, said in a May 19 press release that it has struck a deal with ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that allows “daily pastoral visits.”
El aniversario de la Rerum novarum, un documento para la dignidad humana
Han pasado 135 años desde su promulgación, pero la Rerum Novarum de León XIII constituye un instrumento aún muy válido para afrontar la evolución social, tecnológica y económica en curso con la mirada del Evangelio, de la solidaridad, del bien común y del desarrollo humano integral. “Cada época tiene sus cosas nuevas, pero la pregunta sobre la dignidad del hombre permanece siempre la misma”, afirma el padre Giacomo Costa, acompañante espiritual de las Acli nacionales y colaborador de la Secretaría general del Sínodo. “Una pregunta fundamental —prosigue— para todo compromiso y toda lectura de la realidad por parte de todos los creyentes y de todos los cristianos”.
Border Bishops Have ‘Grave Concerns’ about $72 Billion Immigration Enforcement Funding Package
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A group of U.S. bishops, most from the U.S.-Mexico border region, wrote a May 20 letter to members of Congress expressing “grave concern” with budget legislation that would provide an additional $72 billion for immigration enforcement.
Obispos expresan su 'profunda preocupación' por el paquete presupuestario de 72.000 millones de dólares para programas de control migratorio
Un grupo de obispos de Estados Unidas, que en su mayoría dirigen diócesis cerca de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México, escribió el 20 de mayo una carta a los miembros del Congreso en la que expresaban su "profunda preocupación" por la legislación presupuestaria que destinaría 72.000 millones de dólares adicionales para medidas de aplicación de las leyes de inmigración.
A National Catholic Movement of Public Witness
The Season of Faithful Witness is a national Catholic movement calling individuals, parishes, and communities to live their faith through visible, collective public witness.
A Season Of Faithful Witness
Rafaela did not come to Nogales looking for certainty. She came looking for safety.
After fleeing violence with her children, Rafaela spent more than half a year in Nogales, waiting for the chance to move forward. The waiting was long and heavy, marked by uncertainty about what would come next. Yet even in that prolonged limbo, Rafaela speaks not only of fear or loss, but of something else she found along the way: community.
Pope appoints former undocumented immigrant as bishop of West Virginia
Pope Leo XIV has appointed a man who had once entered the United States as an undocumented immigrant, hidden in the trunk of a car, as the new bishop of West Virginia.
Hundreds hold Mass in the street outside ICE office in Indianapolis
Hundreds of people held Catholic Mass outside the Indianapolis Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on the city’s westside Saturday. Speakers at the service spoke against detainments and deportations.
Pope will inaugurate Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia tower and meet with migrants in June trip to Spain
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the soaring central tower of Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia basilica when he visits Spain next month in a weeklong trip that will also take him to a migrant reception center in the Canary Islands, the Vatican said Wednesday.
