US Catholic Bishops and Immigration

Submitted by MaureenA on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 20:54

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American History Classroom: US Catholic Bishops and Immigration
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS) has partnered with The Catholic University of America to develop an educational Website that highlights the significant role that the U.S. Catholic bishops and the institutional Church in the United States have played on immigration related issues, especially since the early twentieth century.

For more than eighty years the Catholic Church in the United States, through the successive variations of what today is the USCCB, has provided a strong, institutional presence in support of immigrants and in favor of more just immigration laws. This Website will facilitate access to primary documents that help to highlight these efforts and an expansive narrative that will provide the historical context necessary to understand the importance of these documents. In addition, there will be a number of other educational tools that students, faculty and researchers can use.

Todd Scribner
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
202-541-3208
Email: tscribner@usccb.org
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