There was a lot of debate during the presidential election about immigration reform, and the U.S. bishops issued a letter about immigration policy during their recent meeting in November. What have the bishops said regarding immigration?

Thanks to all those who gave prayerful support to the United States bishops during our recent meeting (Nov. 14-16). Below is a summary of our meeting and discussion. ➤ 1. The United States bishops sent greetings to Pope Francis and assured him of our prayers and solidarity.

November 18, 2016 To: Clergy, Religious and Laity of the Archdiocese of New Orleans Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ: This weekend Pope Francis will close the Jubilee Year of Mercy in Rome at St. Peter’s Basilica.

You wrote the following on Facebook about a week before the presidential election: “??? I wonder why??? In political campaigns today on the national, state and local levels, WHY do candidates run, not on their gifts and qualifications, but on the weaknesses of others?

The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last week issued an instruction regarding the burial of the deceased and the conservation of a person’s ashes when the person is cremated. Can you talk about that?

Everyone experiences doubts about the faith at times – “I have” many times, Pope Francis said – but such doubts can be “a sign that we want to know God better and more deeply.” “We do not need to be afraid of questions and doubts because they are the beginning of a path of knowledge and going deeper; one who does not ask questions cannot progress either in knowledge or in faith,” the pope said Nov. 23 at his weekly general audience.

Offering counsel and admonishing sinners are works of mercy, but they are not a license to pretend to be better than others, Pope Francis said. To counsel others is a chance to see how well you, too, measure up to essential standards, he said Nov. 16 to people in St. Peter’s Square.

Visiting the sick and the imprisoned are works of mercy that not only benefit the suffering and the abandoned, but benefit the visitors who are enriched by being with those who suffer like Christ, Pope Francis said.

Authentic religions help people understand that they are, in fact, loved and can be forgiven and are called to love and forgive others, Pope Francis said. “We thirst for mercy, and no technology can quench that thirst,” the pope told Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh and other religious leaders.

Closing doors to immigrants and refugees is not the answer – in fact, it only helps encourage the crime of human trafficking, Pope Francis said. “The only way for resolution is through solidarity,” where everyone pitches in because “all together we are a powerful force of support for those who have lost their homeland, family, work and dignity,” he said Oct. 26 at his weekly general audience.

Renee Torina, a New Orleans native now living in Atlanta, spotted the nativity set in a tiny, olive wood shop in Old Jerusalem, a sales space with no doors, where every piece of inventory is on display because it has to move almost as fast as the people walking briskly by on the cobblestone out front.

When the slavery question, finally, became a sword to which the republic no longer could avert its eyes, Abraham Lincoln turned to Stephen Douglas and said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Lincoln was quoting the words of Jesus (Mark 3:25), but he did not have to invoke Jesus’ name to an audience that fully comprehended who first spoke those words.

Jerry Brumfield was 6 years old in August 1970 and living in the boondocks of Robert, Louisiana, when his mom had to go out and run an errand. She was driving to Baton Rouge to pick up Catholic school uniforms for Jerry and his elder sister Camille.

The International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima has been venerated around the United States and the world since 1947, and this month it is coming to the Archdiocese of New Orleans, accompanied by stories of conversion, peace and healing.

In a way, attorney Edward Ready and his fiancée Dr. Alison Smith, a general surgery resident at Tulane Medical Center, experienced the Third World a year apart in different parts of the globe. Ready was the grand knight of the students’ Knights of Columbus council at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and, on spring break in 2006, he drove a 15-passenger van (with 20 college students inside) nonstop on the 25-hour trek to post-Katrina New Orleans to do volunteer work gutting and rebuilding houses.

Increasingly I have been taking steps back from social media and news outlets. The past year of political turmoil and increasing agitation have proven to me that there are members of our public that consistently rely on whatever information is given to them, regardless of the medium, sources or facts.

There was a lot of debate during the presidential election about immigration reform, and the U.S. bishops issued a letter about immigration policy during their recent meeting in November. What have the bishops said regarding immigration?

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