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By Tyler Arnold, CNA - Vice President JD Vance called border security “humanitarian” in response to comments from Pope Leo XIV about immigration policy in the United States... “Border security is not just good for American citizens,” Vance said in an interview with Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle on Nov. 20. “It is the humanitarian thing to do for the entire world.”... Pope Leo XIV on Nov. 18 asked Americans to listen to U.S. bishops’ message opposing “the indiscriminate mass deportation of people” and urged humane treatment of migrants.

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register - than 25 years as a neurosurgeon... Doran, 62, who was ordained a Roman Catholic deacon in 2021, chronicles both types of exits and offers advice to fellow Catholics for how they can follow the Church’s teachings and prepare to meet their Maker in his 2023 book, To Die Well: A Catholic Neurosurgeon’s Guide to the End of Life, published by Ignatius Press. ....

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - The U.S. Catholic Church is plummeting in membership, with nine out of 10 cradle Catholics abandoning it to become religious “nones,” a bombshell study has revealed... “More and more of those raised Catholic are leaving,” the study published in the University of Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal on August 12 concludes... Examining church attendance figures from 1973 onward, philosopher Michael Rota and sociologist Stephen Bullivant, both committed Catholics, note that “while many religious groups in the U.S. have experienced decline over this period, Catholics are doing particularly poorly.”