Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

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First Time Ever: Bishop Lifts Sunday Mass Obligation Over ICE Fears

First Time Ever: Bishop Lifts Sunday Mass Obligation Over ICE Fears

In Trump-Vance’s America, Catholics are too afraid to worship. The Church is now responding.

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After reports of ICE at Catholic churches, California Bishop denounces  raids – The Mercury News
Bishop Alberto Rojas has been actively speaking about ICE’s

I’m writing to you a second time today — something I almost never do — because what just happened in the American Catholic Church deserves your immediate attention.

For the first time in U.S. history, a bishop has formally suspended the Sunday Mass obligation— not because of a pandemic or a war,…

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