U.S. Politics

If there's anything we know from the first three months of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration (let alone from his first term), it's that the next four years are going to be a wild ride.

President Donald Trump on March 15 invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself broad authority under a wartime law to deport people allegedly associated with a Venezuelan gang, sparking a legal battle and prompting concern from Catholic immigration advocates.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said March 10 that just 18% of programs of the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development will remain intact, and those will now fall under his purview at the State Department.

Pope Francis’ letter rebuking US President Donald Trump for failing to respect the dignity of migrants who move to the United States seeking to escape oppression comes in the wake of questionable theologizing by Vice-President JD Vance.

For now, at least, Donald Trump’s threat of heavy tariffs on Mexico and Canada are on hold. Who knows what he’ll do now? He is nothing if not unpredictable.

The Trump administration has been very busy and has, not unexpectedly, generated much discussion and to be sure controversy.

The recent decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has rocked the world of nongovernmental organizations, south of the border and beyond.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance.

Pope Francis is urging U.S. Catholics and people of goodwill to not give in to “narratives” that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to migrants and refugees.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 5 barring biological males from competing in women's sports.