When millions of European immigrants came to the United States in the 19th century only to be scorned by mainstream society, it was the Catholic Church that embraced them, taught that keeping the customs of one's native lands was not bad and created systems of mutual aid and education for

San Diego bishops were among those who backed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ move to send a rare “special message” — the first in 12 years — to express their concern and opposition amid the ...

“The Catholic Church is wrong,” Homan said. “I’m sorry, I’m a lifelong Catholic, I’m saying it as, not only a Border Czar, I’ll say it as a Catholic.”