The Supreme Court will not hear a pair of cases that may have allowed sidewalk counselors and protesters at abortion clinics to get as close as 8 feet away from people entering them.

Weeks before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over then sudden suspension of funding for refugee resettlement assistance in order to continue to assisting refugees already resettled in the U.S., members of USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services and a local Catholic Charities described the importance and logistics of their work.

Pope Francis has made ecology a signature issue of his pontificate, penning “Laudato Si’,” a 2015 encyclical, and “Laudate Deum,” a 2023 apostolic exhortation, to address it.

Monasticism first emerged as a lay movement focused on cultivating a deep and radical love for both God and neighbor.

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