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Auxiliary Bishop Roy Campbell emphasized at a February 21 Mass that “God is DEI,” according to a report in the archdiocesan newspaper.

“DEI means God is diversity, He is equity, and He is inclusion,” Bishop Campbell preached at a Mass at St. Joseph Church in Largo, Maryland.

In September, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) published “DEI means God,” a reflection by Bishop Campbell that was critical of the Trump administration. The USCCB subsequently removed the reflection from its website.

In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter, the undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development called for the expansion of “regular corridors of migration.”

“These legal flows of migration have always existed historically, and at certain historical moments, for reasons of fear, they are no longer considered feasible,” said Cardinal Fabio Baggio, CS, who stated that “this absolutely does not mean that the Church has favored illegal immigration.”

Cardinal Baggio added:

Today the person as subject has been lost, the migrant, and people speak only of “illegals,” and everyone knows what we are referring to. As if the only people who violate a law are migrants who enter illegally into a country.

But someone who runs a red light, is he an illegal driver? Why is only this category [migration] labeled with illegality, when there are many other forms that are far more serious? We find ourselves faced with a language that is itself an instrument, let’s say, for perpetuating fear or exacerbating fear.

Discussing the situation in Ukraine four years after the 2022 Russian invasion, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said that “it is shameful that, in four years, the international community has failed to stop the aggressor’s deadly hand.”

“We must do everything possible to stop the aggressor,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said in an interview with Vatican News. “Then another time will come: that of healing the trauma and rebuilding what the war has destroyed. But that will be another story. Orate pro nobis. Pray for us.”

Following the killing of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the Primate of Mexico said that “the fight against evil is a permanent duty for all disciples of Jesus, the Teacher of Peace.”

Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City added, “We are aware of the difficult times we face as a society; therefore, I offer this message to encourage us and to call on everyone to be collaborators for the common good, promoting the justice and social peace we need.”

The Supreme Court of India affirmed that Christians and members of other religious minority groups may be buried in public cemeteries in the Hindu-majority nation.

The decision follows the exhumation of the bodies of Christians from public cemeteries in some villages in Chhattisgarh (map), a state that is 93% Hindu, 2% Muslim, and 2% Christian.

Thousands of pilgrims have traveled to Assisi to venerate St. Francis’s skeletal remains, which have been exposed for public veneration for the first time.

The exposition of the relics began on February 22 and will conclude on March 22. Pope Leo has proclaimed a Year of Saint Francis in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death.