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Migrants in Greece. / Ververidis Vasilis via www.shutterstock.com.Denver, Colo., May 11, 2023 / 13:10 pm (CNA).In his message for the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, released May 11, Pope Francis recognized the migratory flows of our times as "the expression of a complex and varied phenomenon" that requires analysis of the different stages, including the departure, arrival, and the possibility of returning to one's homeland.The Church observes the World Day of Migrants and Refugees on the last Sunday of September, which this year falls on Sept. 24. This year's theme is &quo...

Key Catholic leaders ministering to migrants at the border pose for a photograph with President Joe Biden Jan. 8, 2023. Left to right: Bishop Seitz of El Paso, Texas; Sister Norma Pimental of Brownsville, Texas; and Ruben Garcia, director of migrant shelter Annunciation House. / Diocese of El PasoWashington D.C., May 8, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso issued an open letter to Congress on May 5 strongly condemning the Secure the Border Act of 2023 as "extreme" and expressing the U.S. bishops' position that the bill's passage "is beyond justification.&...

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Maryland state capital building, Annapolis. Via Shutterstock. / nullWashington D.C., May 8, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).Republicans in Maryland are criticizing Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Wes Moore for approving legislation that will expand taxpayer-funded Medicaid coverage to include transgender surgeries and drugs for children. Under the old Maryland law, which is in effect until Jan. 1, 2024, Medicaid covers transgender surgeries and drugs for patients who were at least 18 years old and diagnosed with gender dysphoria. This includes mental health services, hormone replacement therapy, and gende...

Two-time Super Bowl champion kicker Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs delivers his speech to graduates at Georgia Tech on Saturday, May 6, 2023. / Credit: Georgia Tech/YouTubeBoston, Mass., May 8, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker offered graduating college students a wake-up call on Saturday. "I'm about to pop off some hard truths," the two-time Super Bowl champion said as the commencement speaker at his alma mater, Georgia Institute of Technology.Butker, who has been outspoken about his Catholic faith, told the students that their hard wor...