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Powerful analysis from America Magazine on how Catholics are countering the brutal tactics of ICE and their crackdowns on U.S. cities.
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A Catholic guide to resisting the ICE crackdown
As the nation veers into policies on war-making and immigration that disturb many, average Catholics are stepping up into activist roles to voice their concerns and assist their neighbors.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Powerful analysis from America Magazine on how Catholics are countering the brutal tactics of ICE and their crackdowns on U.S. cities.
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
More than 80 faith leaders participated in civil disobedience in the Russell Senate Building Rotunda as part of the #prayingwithourfeet action, calling on Congress not to fund ICE.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
More than 80 faith leaders participated in civil disobedience in the Russell Senate Building Rotunda as part of the #prayingwithourfeet action, calling on Congress not to fund ICE.
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actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Religious leaders and orgs including NETWORK are on Capitol Hill today for #prayingwithourfeet. Their message to Congress:
Stop funding ICE and their terrorizing of U.S. communities!
Livestream: www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
Stop funding ICE and their terrorizing of U.S. communities!
Livestream: www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Religious leaders and orgs including NETWORK are on Capitol Hill today for #prayingwithourfeet. Their message to Congress:
Stop funding ICE and their terrorizing of U.S. communities!
Livestream: www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
Stop funding ICE and their terrorizing of U.S. communities!
Livestream: www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
NETWORK board member Sr. Bridget Bearss, RSCJ, Executive Director Laurie Carafone, and Sr. Deirdre Griffin, CSSJ, of the US Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph at the #prayingwithourfeet event on Capitol Hill to tell Congress no more funding for ICE and their terrorizing of our communities.
January 29, 2026 at 2:26 PM
NETWORK board member Sr. Bridget Bearss, RSCJ, Executive Director Laurie Carafone, and Sr. Deirdre Griffin, CSSJ, of the US Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph at the #prayingwithourfeet event on Capitol Hill to tell Congress no more funding for ICE and their terrorizing of our communities.
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Last week, the House passed funding for the Department of Homeland Security that would fuel terror in our communities. The Senate will vote on this bill as early as Wed., Jan. 28.
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Last week, the House passed funding for the Department of Homeland Security that would fuel terror in our communities. The Senate will vote on this bill as early as Wed., Jan. 28.
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Last week, the House passed funding for the Department of Homeland Security that would fuel terror in our communities. The Senate will vote on this bill as early as Wed., Jan. 28.
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Last week, the House passed funding for the Department of Homeland Security that would fuel terror in our communities. The Senate will vote on this bill as early as Wed., Jan. 28.
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Help stop the government from using our taxpayer dollars to fund ICE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
NETWORK Executive Director Laurie Carafone joined interfaith leaders on a Faith in Action call Sunday night decrying the lethal violence perpetrated by ICE in Minneapolis and calling people of faith and goodwill to action.
www.tomorrowsamericancatholic.org/p/cardinal-t...
www.tomorrowsamericancatholic.org/p/cardinal-t...
Cardinal Tobin and executive director of NETWORK speak on National Faith Call to Action
The interfaith call was convened "to lament, pray, and take action" in response to ongoing violence in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
www.tomorrowsamericancatholic.org
January 26, 2026 at 7:56 PM
NETWORK Executive Director Laurie Carafone joined interfaith leaders on a Faith in Action call Sunday night decrying the lethal violence perpetrated by ICE in Minneapolis and calling people of faith and goodwill to action.
www.tomorrowsamericancatholic.org/p/cardinal-t...
www.tomorrowsamericancatholic.org/p/cardinal-t...
Let's meet this moment together 💪
Introducing the NETWORK Organizing Institute: a 4 month organizing program for advocates ready to lead, recruit, and take action in their own communities!
📆 March 5–June 25 (biweekly)
💻 Live Zoom sessions
👉 Apply today: actionnetwork.org/forms/organi...
Introducing the NETWORK Organizing Institute: a 4 month organizing program for advocates ready to lead, recruit, and take action in their own communities!
📆 March 5–June 25 (biweekly)
💻 Live Zoom sessions
👉 Apply today: actionnetwork.org/forms/organi...
NETWORK's Organizing Institute
As NETWORK advocates, we care deeply about our communities and are committed to building a country where we all have a say in the decisions that impact our lives and have all that we need to thrive. T...
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January 23, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Let's meet this moment together 💪
Introducing the NETWORK Organizing Institute: a 4 month organizing program for advocates ready to lead, recruit, and take action in their own communities!
📆 March 5–June 25 (biweekly)
💻 Live Zoom sessions
👉 Apply today: actionnetwork.org/forms/organi...
Introducing the NETWORK Organizing Institute: a 4 month organizing program for advocates ready to lead, recruit, and take action in their own communities!
📆 March 5–June 25 (biweekly)
💻 Live Zoom sessions
👉 Apply today: actionnetwork.org/forms/organi...
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The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
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“The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.”
This is absolutely amazing and inspiring and oh it is -10 degrees (that’s right negative) in Minneapolis today.
This is absolutely amazing and inspiring and oh it is -10 degrees (that’s right negative) in Minneapolis today.
Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
“The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.”
This is absolutely amazing and inspiring and oh it is -10 degrees (that’s right negative) in Minneapolis today.
This is absolutely amazing and inspiring and oh it is -10 degrees (that’s right negative) in Minneapolis today.
NETWORK sends you all hope and resolve on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
NETWORK sends you all hope and resolve on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Congress is debating additional funding for ICE. This would enable ICE to continue inhumane practices against immigrant communities. We must act now! Email your representatives and urge them to protect our neighbors. 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/appr...
#ImmigrantRights #TakeAction #Catholic
#ImmigrantRights #TakeAction #Catholic
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Congress is debating additional funding for ICE. This would enable ICE to continue inhumane practices against immigrant communities. We must act now! Email your representatives and urge them to protect our neighbors. 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/appr...
#ImmigrantRights #TakeAction #Catholic
#ImmigrantRights #TakeAction #Catholic
Congratulations to the Members of Congress who voted to support legislation for the common good 100% of the time on NETWORK’s Voting Record – out today! Scroll to find out if your Member of Congress made the 100% list or scored a failing grade. Read more here: media.networklobby.org/uploads/2026...
January 15, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Congratulations to the Members of Congress who voted to support legislation for the common good 100% of the time on NETWORK’s Voting Record – out today! Scroll to find out if your Member of Congress made the 100% list or scored a failing grade. Read more here: media.networklobby.org/uploads/2026...
NETWORK decries assaults on human life and dignity and demands accountability after lethal shooting in Minneapolis.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
NETWORK decries assaults on human life and dignity and demands accountability after lethal shooting in Minneapolis.
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How can people of faith stand up for democracy in 2026? What challenges are we facing in this critical moment? Join us on Zoom on Tuesday, January 6 from 7-8 pm Eastern/4-5 pm Pacific for the fifth annual interfaith event, "Faith in democracy: Facing the challenges of 2026.’’
Jan. 6: Faith in democracy online event
Pax Christi USA is partnering with Franciscan Action Network on Tuesday, January 6, 7:00 pm Eastern/4:00 pm Pacific for Faith in democracy: Facing the challenges of 2026, a digital panel moderated by Chris Crawford, the Senior Director of Civic Strategies at Interfaith America, and featuring Jim Wallis, the founding Director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and Justice; …
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December 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
How can people of faith stand up for democracy in 2026? What challenges are we facing in this critical moment? Join us on Zoom on Tuesday, January 6 from 7-8 pm Eastern/4-5 pm Pacific for the fifth annual interfaith event, "Faith in democracy: Facing the challenges of 2026.’’
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Today is the 68th anniversary of the creation of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and over 200 recent employees have shared an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.
An Open Letter from Former Civil Rights Division Employees
On the 68th anniversary of the Civil Rights Division, former employees share an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today is the 68th anniversary of the creation of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and over 200 recent employees have shared an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.
Hundreds of faith leaders urged Congress to keep healthcare costs down by passing a bill that protects and expands tax credits to help keep health insurance affordable for 24 million people in the U.S.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hundreds of faith leaders urged Congress to keep healthcare costs down by passing a bill that protects and expands tax credits to help keep health insurance affordable for 24 million people in the U.S.
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networklobby.org/news/12925-i...
As we journey this #Advent, Sr. Erin Zubal, OSU, NETWORK's chief of staff, reflects on a future in which Catholic Sisters' collaborators and other people who love them have taken up the charisms that Sisters have carried for so long.
www.globalsistersreport.org/spirituality...
www.globalsistersreport.org/spirituality...
Sisters share Advent hope found within their ministries and experiences
The new panelists begin the ninth year of The Life by answering this prompt: "Drawing from your experiences and the world around you, share a reflection or meditation on the theme of Advent."
www.globalsistersreport.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
As we journey this #Advent, Sr. Erin Zubal, OSU, NETWORK's chief of staff, reflects on a future in which Catholic Sisters' collaborators and other people who love them have taken up the charisms that Sisters have carried for so long.
www.globalsistersreport.org/spirituality...
www.globalsistersreport.org/spirituality...
Greisa Martínez Rosas of
@unitedwedream.org
speaks at the Dec 4 introduction of the #DreamAct in Congress. This bill would provide a path to citizenship for young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. NETWORK strongly endorses it!
NETWORK's full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
@unitedwedream.org
speaks at the Dec 4 introduction of the #DreamAct in Congress. This bill would provide a path to citizenship for young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. NETWORK strongly endorses it!
NETWORK's full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Greisa Martínez Rosas of
@unitedwedream.org
speaks at the Dec 4 introduction of the #DreamAct in Congress. This bill would provide a path to citizenship for young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. NETWORK strongly endorses it!
NETWORK's full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
@unitedwedream.org
speaks at the Dec 4 introduction of the #DreamAct in Congress. This bill would provide a path to citizenship for young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. NETWORK strongly endorses it!
NETWORK's full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
"It shows the way toward a future of transformative social change, echoing the Catholic Social Justice tradition. NETWORK wholeheartedly supports this legislation.”
- Laurie Carafone, NETWORK executive director on reintroduction of the Dream Act
Full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
- Laurie Carafone, NETWORK executive director on reintroduction of the Dream Act
Full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"It shows the way toward a future of transformative social change, echoing the Catholic Social Justice tradition. NETWORK wholeheartedly supports this legislation.”
- Laurie Carafone, NETWORK executive director on reintroduction of the Dream Act
Full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
- Laurie Carafone, NETWORK executive director on reintroduction of the Dream Act
Full statement: networklobby.org/news/12425-d...
This Advent, help NETWORK support the ROAD to Housing Act.
By advocating for affordable housing during a season when we find God in the Holy Family seeking shelter in a stable, we, in the words of Pope Leo XIV, “honor the image of God and build a better society.”
actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...
By advocating for affordable housing during a season when we find God in the Holy Family seeking shelter in a stable, we, in the words of Pope Leo XIV, “honor the image of God and build a better society.”
actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This Advent, help NETWORK support the ROAD to Housing Act.
By advocating for affordable housing during a season when we find God in the Holy Family seeking shelter in a stable, we, in the words of Pope Leo XIV, “honor the image of God and build a better society.”
actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...
By advocating for affordable housing during a season when we find God in the Holy Family seeking shelter in a stable, we, in the words of Pope Leo XIV, “honor the image of God and build a better society.”
actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...
We invite you to help make a difference in our work for justice! Together, we can build an economy for everyone, not just the powerful few.
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networklobby.org/gt3
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We invite you to help make a difference in our work for justice! Together, we can build an economy for everyone, not just the powerful few.
networklobby.org/gt3
networklobby.org/gt3