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Our mission is clear: CCC 2241
Prosperous nations must welcome the foreigner as far as they are able, and nations may regulate migration for the common good.
We ask that both be preached with equal clarity and respect from our leaders.
Our mission is clear: CCC 2241
Prosperous nations must welcome the foreigner as far as they are able, and nations may regulate migration for the common good.
We ask that both be preached with equal clarity and respect from our leaders.
Young Catholics for Ordered Migration wants the bishops to hear another view on immigration, one rooted in the Church’s tradition. crisismagazine.com/opinion/meet-t…
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YCOM is incorporating & pursuing 501(c)(3) status. We are already working with a CPA who is prepared to assist with the filing.
We are seeking a Texas attorney familiar with nonprofit formation who is willing to assist our young Catholic organization in this process.
If you or someone you know can help, please reach out via DM or email admin@ycominitiative.org
In charity, with order.
We are seeking a Texas attorney familiar with nonprofit formation who is willing to assist our young Catholic organization in this process.
If you or someone you know can help, please reach out via DM or email admin@ycominitiative.org
In charity, with order.
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Our new article offers a clear framework for distinguishing dogma and definitive doctrine from ordinary teaching and prudential judgments.
Catholics can read encyclicals and the Catechism with precision rather than confusion by applying these concepts 👇
Catholics can read encyclicals and the Catechism with precision rather than confusion by applying these concepts 👇
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Well, another Cardinal has come out with a, shall we say, puzzling take on evangelization.
A few years ago, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, at the time auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, said that he and the other organizers of World Youth Day in his hometown had no interest in converting anyone to Christ.
Now Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algeria has opined that “the Church is not there to convert” and “Christians should approach other religions through fraternity rather than seeking conversions.”
Excuse me, but…what?
Last time I checked, the Founder said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Sure sounds like conversion to me.
When St. Paul came to Corinth or Athens or Thessalonica, his purpose was not to listen or to form a discussion group but rather to declare an unnerving message: the euangelion (glad tidings) that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
So impassioned is he for this work that he says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:22); and “If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16)!
Moreover, the entire thrust of the Second Vatican Council was toward bringing the Light of Christ to the peoples of the world (Lumen Gentium). And this missionary élan has given rise in the last few decades to the idea of a “new evangelization,” which is to say, a fresh declaration of the Lordship of Christ.
Quite obviously, no one thinks that this work of evangelization should be done in a brow-beating, overbearing, or disrespectful manner (proselytization), but for God’s sake, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If I really thought that the Church does not exist to bring people to Christ, then I would resign and get an honest job.
A few years ago, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, at the time auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, said that he and the other organizers of World Youth Day in his hometown had no interest in converting anyone to Christ.
Now Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algeria has opined that “the Church is not there to convert” and “Christians should approach other religions through fraternity rather than seeking conversions.”
Excuse me, but…what?
Last time I checked, the Founder said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Sure sounds like conversion to me.
When St. Paul came to Corinth or Athens or Thessalonica, his purpose was not to listen or to form a discussion group but rather to declare an unnerving message: the euangelion (glad tidings) that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
So impassioned is he for this work that he says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:22); and “If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16)!
Moreover, the entire thrust of the Second Vatican Council was toward bringing the Light of Christ to the peoples of the world (Lumen Gentium). And this missionary élan has given rise in the last few decades to the idea of a “new evangelization,” which is to say, a fresh declaration of the Lordship of Christ.
Quite obviously, no one thinks that this work of evangelization should be done in a brow-beating, overbearing, or disrespectful manner (proselytization), but for God’s sake, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If I really thought that the Church does not exist to bring people to Christ, then I would resign and get an honest job.
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This is precisely one of the issues we at YCOM seek to address.
The median lay staff member in a Catholic parish or diocese is a 55 year old woman. While we appreciate their service, and everyone has the right to serve the Church, we believe there is an imbalance of representation.
When the Bishops themselves are primarily surrounded by one single demographic, it leads to a representative void. As humans, our beliefs are heavily influenced by the sum of the 5 people we spend the most time with.
What’s the takeaway? Our message to our Catholic supporters today is this: find a way to get involved in your Catholic community. Social media discourse can only go so far. Meaningful, real world difference making is the path to the healing of our beautiful Church.
Make your voice heard.
The median lay staff member in a Catholic parish or diocese is a 55 year old woman. While we appreciate their service, and everyone has the right to serve the Church, we believe there is an imbalance of representation.
When the Bishops themselves are primarily surrounded by one single demographic, it leads to a representative void. As humans, our beliefs are heavily influenced by the sum of the 5 people we spend the most time with.
What’s the takeaway? Our message to our Catholic supporters today is this: find a way to get involved in your Catholic community. Social media discourse can only go so far. Meaningful, real world difference making is the path to the healing of our beautiful Church.
Make your voice heard.
Hypothesis: Bishops conferences inevitably adopt the modal politics of their lay staff. Staff of middle aged ladies = middle aged lady politics. Restaff with white guys age 20-35 = totally different politics. Same bishops, same doctrines.
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Faith can dwell in every culture and elevate what is good, beautiful, and true within it.
It does NOT, however, require the dissolution of particular cultures into one another.
The continuity of a people (including the Western and American inheritance of law, language, custom, and moral order) is itself a good that political authority is bound to protect for the sake of the common good.
Ordered migration receives the stranger without extinguishing the host, and prioritizes cultural assimilation.
It does NOT, however, require the dissolution of particular cultures into one another.
The continuity of a people (including the Western and American inheritance of law, language, custom, and moral order) is itself a good that political authority is bound to protect for the sake of the common good.
Ordered migration receives the stranger without extinguishing the host, and prioritizes cultural assimilation.
Faith can be embodied in all cultures, because it does not identify itself with any of them in a specific one. It dwells within them, shaping them from within according to the “form” of Jesus Christ; that is, through charity, service and the filial recognition of God’s fatherhood. In this way, the Church draws from the various cultures all that is good, beautiful and true, in order to embody and transmit the message of the Gospel. #GeneralAudience
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Grateful for the clarity on fraud as a wound to the common good, Your Excellency.
The recovery of moral integrity rooted in the Decalogue and the Beatitudes is indispensable.
The same concern requires precision about the scale and sources of the losses.
High-profile cases in Minnesota alone have disproportionately involved members of recent immigrant communities
The recovery of moral integrity rooted in the Decalogue and the Beatitudes is indispensable.
The same concern requires precision about the scale and sources of the losses.
High-profile cases in Minnesota alone have disproportionately involved members of recent immigrant communities
Friends, the sheer volume of fraud taking place in recent years throughout the world, and in America in particular, is staggering. I heard recently that the high end of federal estimates of the amount of money stolen per year in America is greater than the GDP of Vietnam, the Philippines, or Denmark.
This is a real blight upon our society, made possible, at least in part, by religious disaffiliation.
Since morality is grounded, ultimately, in God, one consequence of disaffiliation is an increase in moral drift, relativism, and indifference.
If we want to protect the common good, we have to recover a moral integrity rooted in the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the parables of Jesus.
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Human dignity is not conferred by the Census. It precedes every civil count.
Apportionment of representation is a juridical act of the community.
Excluding non-citizens and those without lawful permanent residency from that count does not deny that they are persons. It declines to treat non-membership as membership.
The Catechism distinguishes the stranger’s natural dignity from the authority of political communities, for the common good, to regulate entry and participation.
The bishops’ statement collapses that clear distinction.
Apportionment of representation is a juridical act of the community.
Excluding non-citizens and those without lawful permanent residency from that count does not deny that they are persons. It declines to treat non-membership as membership.
The Catechism distinguishes the stranger’s natural dignity from the authority of political communities, for the common good, to regulate entry and participation.
The bishops’ statement collapses that clear distinction.
U.S. bishops are opposing proposed Census Bureau rule changes for the 2030 census, arguing that excluding noncitizens without lawful permanent resident status from the apportionment count would effectively deny them recognition as persons.
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A bishop praying for the civil authority and articulating the Church’s teaching in the presence of the ruler is not a novelty.
It is the ordinary practice of Christendom: the spiritual power intercedes for the temporal order and reminds it of the common good it is bound to serve.
The Church should continue informing and praying for our leaders regardless of party affiliation.
It is the ordinary practice of Christendom: the spiritual power intercedes for the temporal order and reminds it of the common good it is bound to serve.
The Church should continue informing and praying for our leaders regardless of party affiliation.
Denver Archbishop James Golka this week defended his participation in a prayer event with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Oval Office, citing the gathering as an opportunity to publicly pray and evangelize the faith.
Golka, who was installed in the Denver Archdiocese in March shop of Colorado Springs for several years, led a prayer during an Oct. 22 meeting at the Oval Office between Trump and several U.S. bishops.
During the gathering the archbishop in part prayed for the Holy Spirit to “surround our country, to protect us against any influence of evil.”
The prayer event generated some backlash for what critics have argued was a politically motivated photo opportunity on the part of the White House. Golka this week said he “knew people might be upset” at the event and that it could be "use[d] for political purposes.”
“But as I prayed about it, I thought that this is what Catholics do. We pray for people. No matter whether we agree or disagree on anything, we always pray for our country and leaders,” he said in remarks to the Denver Catholic.
Golka said during the meeting he articulated Church teachings to the president. “As Catholics, we’re called to share our faith in season and out of season and to witness to the dignity of every human person,” he told the Denver Catholic.
He denied that the event, including video of the prayer shared on social media, constituted an “endorsement” of the president. “That was never my intention,” he said.
“The bishops of the United States teach that the Church cannot champion any candidate or party,” he said. “I hold to that. However you vote, you ultimately belong to Jesus who loves you infinitely more than you can imagine.”
The archbishop said he has received criticism from friends about the decision and that he has responded by telling them: “I was being a Catholic priest.”
He described himself as “heartbroken” at the anger over the event. He urged Christians to “look beyond the headlines, which are often crafted to provoke, towards the full truth.”
“I will keep praying for our president, our governor and everyone who serves in public office, regardless of their party or position on divisive topics,” he said.
The Archdiocese of Denver said after the event that praying for public leaders “is a long Catholic practice” that dates back to Apostolic Age.
More: ewtnnews.com/world/us/denve…
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The Mosaic Law required one statute for native and sojourner.
Certain peoples were excluded from the assembly in perpetuity, and others were admitted only in the third generation.
Full breakdown below 👇
Certain peoples were excluded from the assembly in perpetuity, and others were admitted only in the third generation.
Full breakdown below 👇
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Full breakdown at ycominitiative.org. In charity, with order. Ave Christus Rex.
Immigration and Assimilation in the Mosaic Law, drawing on Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and St. Thomas Aquinas:
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Did God's own Law have an immigration policy?
In the Mosaic Law, native and sojourner lived under one law (Exod. 12:49). But full membership in the assembly required a rite of entry and, for some peoples, took generations.
Charity with order. New article below 👇
In the Mosaic Law, native and sojourner lived under one law (Exod. 12:49). But full membership in the assembly required a rite of entry and, for some peoples, took generations.
Charity with order. New article below 👇
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Did God's own Law have an immigration policy?
In the Mosaic Law, native and sojourner lived under one law (Exod. 12:49). But full membership in the assembly required a rite of entry and, for some peoples, took generations.
Charity with order. New article below 👇
In the Mosaic Law, native and sojourner lived under one law (Exod. 12:49). But full membership in the assembly required a rite of entry and, for some peoples, took generations.
Charity with order. New article below 👇
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Immigration and Assimilation in the Mosaic Law, drawing on Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and St. Thomas Aquinas:
ycominitiative.org/2026/10/21/imm…
ycominitiative.org/2026/10/21/imm…
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A society that cannot offer its young men a path to useful work and the means to prosper is not ordered to the common good.
The young man who can support a household, form a family, and exercise a trade or profession is not a peripheral concern. He is one of the ordinary conditions of a stable community. A primary pillar.
When these conditions are neglected, the costs appear elsewhere. Delayed marriage, in declining birth rates, and in a politics that treats the native citizen as an afterthought.
Nations may still prefer their own and regulate entry so that the opportunities of the political community remain available to those who belong to it. The alternative is a permanent transfer of the means of prosperity away from the people who are expected to sustain order.
The recognition of that duty is a welcome change.
The young man who can support a household, form a family, and exercise a trade or profession is not a peripheral concern. He is one of the ordinary conditions of a stable community. A primary pillar.
When these conditions are neglected, the costs appear elsewhere. Delayed marriage, in declining birth rates, and in a politics that treats the native citizen as an afterthought.
Nations may still prefer their own and regulate entry so that the opportunities of the political community remain available to those who belong to it. The alternative is a permanent transfer of the means of prosperity away from the people who are expected to sustain order.
The recognition of that duty is a welcome change.
I will say what no other politician will say: young men, I will be your champion.
Whether you are a coder, a roughneck, a banker, or a trucker, if you are a young man, I want you to have a fulfilling career that not only provides the necessities, but empowers you to prosper.
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Thank you, Bishop Barron.
The images from Paris are a reminder that public order is not automatic. It is the fruit of a civilization that still knows what it is for.
Paris became great because it defended and developed a tradition rooted in Rome.
That tradition includes the conviction that political communities may regulate their own borders and preserve the conditions of the common good. When those conditions are abandoned, the results are visible in the streets.
The resources to oppose the disorder still remain. They are intellectual, spiritual, and practical. We are grateful for the clarity, the laity must rise to the occasion.
The images from Paris are a reminder that public order is not automatic. It is the fruit of a civilization that still knows what it is for.
Paris became great because it defended and developed a tradition rooted in Rome.
That tradition includes the conviction that political communities may regulate their own borders and preserve the conditions of the common good. When those conditions are abandoned, the results are visible in the streets.
The resources to oppose the disorder still remain. They are intellectual, spiritual, and practical. We are grateful for the clarity, the laity must rise to the occasion.
I have found the images of the rioting in Paris and other French cities heartbreaking. I spent three wonderful years as a doctoral student in Paris, and I easily recognize many of the neighborhoods and streets that are now in flames.
Though its roots go back to ancient Rome, Paris became a truly great city because of the University of Paris, which grew from the Cathedral school of Notre Dame. For centuries, scholars came from all over Europe to this center of learning where the Western intellectual tradition—born of the confluence of Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome—was defended and developed.
What seems clear is that the arsonists and rioters of the present day represent a farrago of forces inimical to the intellectual and moral values of the West.
I had taken such encouragement from the demonstration of pride in Catholicism and Catholic history that was on display when Pope Leo visited France just a few weeks ago.
May the French people rouse themselves to realize that they stand against a determined enemy and that they have the intellectual and spiritual resources to oppose that foe.
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The St. Michael prayer is a short, approved text that generations of Catholics have recited after Mass. Removing it because it is “additional” does not serve the liturgy. It simply discards a practice the people already know and want.
This is a similar pattern we see with migration. A single preferred emphasis is treated as the mind of the Church, while the rest of the teaching (the right of nations to regulate borders for the common good) is quietly set aside.
In both cases the faithful are told that what they have long practiced or believed must now be catechized away.
YCOM exists to keep the full teaching in view. Nations may regulate migration. Charity without order is not Catholic. The same principle applies inside the parish: a bishop who reforms by subtraction rather than by fidelity will meet resistance from the people he is called to serve.
The prayer can and should stay.
This is a similar pattern we see with migration. A single preferred emphasis is treated as the mind of the Church, while the rest of the teaching (the right of nations to regulate borders for the common good) is quietly set aside.
In both cases the faithful are told that what they have long practiced or believed must now be catechized away.
YCOM exists to keep the full teaching in view. Nations may regulate migration. Charity without order is not Catholic. The same principle applies inside the parish: a bishop who reforms by subtraction rather than by fidelity will meet resistance from the people he is called to serve.
The prayer can and should stay.
We simply have to stop appointing bishops whose ability to manage exceeds their desire to.
The Francis Papacy in particular has been dominated by choices of bishops who are perfect reflections of the failed 1980s version of American Catholicism.
There is not one intelligent person who would spend time in any Diocese, look over the landscape and think to themselves “You know what we really need to do? Ban the Saint Michael prayer after mass.”
Final note on this topic:
Not two months ago a left-wing publication put out an article about why we shouldn’t pray that Saint Michael prayer after mass.
If you do not think this is a coordinated effort, you haven’t been paying attention.
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The statement issued today by Bishop Brendan Cahill and the Rev. Walter Kim is a prudential judgment about current enforcement. It is not a teaching that binds the conscience on the liceity of ordered migration.
Catechism 2241 states both halves of the Church’s doctrine. Political authorities may, for the sake of the common good, regulate the exercise of the right to immigrate by juridical conditions.
Immigrants are obliged to respect the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws, and to assist in carrying civic burdens.
The statement affirms secure borders and the duty of government in general terms. It then treats the ordinary application of those laws (detention and removal of those present without authorization) as presumptively indiscriminate and as a rupture of families that Scripture forbids.
This interpretation is not required by the Catechism. Enforcement of a valid law is not, by that fact, an injustice. Family unity is a real good. It does not extinguish the political community’s right to determine who may remain within its borders, nor does it convert every removal into the creation of widows and orphans.
The claim that Romans 13 is departed from when enforcement reaches the peaceful majority reverses the meaning in the passage. It teaches that the ruler is God’s servant for the good and does not bear the sword in vain against wrongdoing.
Unlawful presence is a wrong against the juridical order the community has established. To confine enforcement to those who commit additional crimes is a policy choice. It is not the teaching of the Apostles, and it is not the teaching of the Catechism.
The statement further asserts that only Congress can remedy the situation and that majorities of Catholics and evangelicals support regularization for longtime residents. Those are political assessments. They do not alter the moral principle that a nation may set and enforce the conditions of residence. The Church’s pastors may urge reforms they judge more humane. Lay Catholics may, with equal fidelity to the same Catechism, judge that the common good now requires the restoration of order before new pathways are opened. Neither judgment is the doctrine of the Church.
We remain in communion with the bishops. We ask only that the second half of Catechism 2241 be preached with the same clarity as the first. Nations may regulate borders for the common good.
Charity without order is not Catholic.
Catechism 2241 states both halves of the Church’s doctrine. Political authorities may, for the sake of the common good, regulate the exercise of the right to immigrate by juridical conditions.
Immigrants are obliged to respect the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws, and to assist in carrying civic burdens.
The statement affirms secure borders and the duty of government in general terms. It then treats the ordinary application of those laws (detention and removal of those present without authorization) as presumptively indiscriminate and as a rupture of families that Scripture forbids.
This interpretation is not required by the Catechism. Enforcement of a valid law is not, by that fact, an injustice. Family unity is a real good. It does not extinguish the political community’s right to determine who may remain within its borders, nor does it convert every removal into the creation of widows and orphans.
The claim that Romans 13 is departed from when enforcement reaches the peaceful majority reverses the meaning in the passage. It teaches that the ruler is God’s servant for the good and does not bear the sword in vain against wrongdoing.
Unlawful presence is a wrong against the juridical order the community has established. To confine enforcement to those who commit additional crimes is a policy choice. It is not the teaching of the Apostles, and it is not the teaching of the Catechism.
The statement further asserts that only Congress can remedy the situation and that majorities of Catholics and evangelicals support regularization for longtime residents. Those are political assessments. They do not alter the moral principle that a nation may set and enforce the conditions of residence. The Church’s pastors may urge reforms they judge more humane. Lay Catholics may, with equal fidelity to the same Catechism, judge that the common good now requires the restoration of order before new pathways are opened. Neither judgment is the doctrine of the Church.
We remain in communion with the bishops. We ask only that the second half of Catechism 2241 be preached with the same clarity as the first. Nations may regulate borders for the common good.
Charity without order is not Catholic.
Catholic and Evangelical Leaders Unite in Call for Compassionate Immigration Reform
“There is much that can be done to avoid the rupturing of our families and communities brought about by indiscriminate and aggressive enforcement actions,” said Bishop Brendan Cahill and Reverend Walter Kim in an ecumenical statement released today.
Bishop Cahill serves as the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration and Reverend Kim as the president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Together, they lead the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on Immigration (ECDI) as its co-chairs.
Read the full release at: ow.ly/Uv8I50ZXgTI
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