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John Lavenburg

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John Lavenburg is an American journalist and the national correspondent for Crux. Before joining Crux, John worked for a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts covering education and religion.

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Members of the Border Network for Human Rights and the Reform Immigration Alliance for Texas hold a march in El Paso, Texas, April 10, 2021, to launch the "We Are the 11 Million" campaign demanding immigration reform to help people in the U.S. without legal permission. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Pro-immigrant ‘Ready to Stay’ campaign has faith groups as backbone

John Lavenburg|Jul 15, 2021|5 Min Read

People clash with plainclothes police during protests in Havana July 11, 2021. Thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest a lack of food and medicine as the country undergoes a grave economic crisis aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. sanctions. (CNS Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, Reuters)

World

Bishops say Cubans are starving for both ‘bread and freedom’

John Lavenburg|Jul 14, 2021|5 Min Read

Anderson, a 6-year-old unaccompanied minor from El Salvador, stands in line with other asylum-seeking children in La Joya, Texas, May 14, 2021, as they identify themselves to a Border Patrol agent after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico. (Adrees Latif/Reuters, CNS via Crux)

Faith

Priest says detained migrant children ‘hungry’ for faith

John Lavenburg|Jun 29, 2021|4 Min Read

Haitian immigrants and supporters in New York City hold placards in support of Temporary Protected Status in this 2017 file photo. On May 22, 2021, the Biden administration granted eligible Haitian nationals living in the United States the chance to apply for a new 18-month TPS designation. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters/CNS via Crux)

Bishops call on Congress to fix immigration system after TPS court ruling

John Lavenburg|Jun 10, 2021|4 Min Read

A migrant from Central America who was airlifted from Brownsville, Texas, to El Paso, Texas, and then deported with her son are seen at a temporary temporary shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 5, 2021. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Immigration summit laments ’empty’ Central American towns

John Lavenburg|Jun 5, 2021|4 Min Read

Archbishop Filippo Iannone, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, attends a press conference to discuss revisions to the Code of Canon Law, at the Vatican June 1, 2021. Pope Francis has promulgated a revised section of the Code of Canon Law dealing with crimes and punishments. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

U.S. Church leaders welcome changes to canon law on sexual abuse

John Lavenburg|Jun 3, 2021|4 Min Read

A man in Minneapolis gestures as the jury reaches a verdict April 20, 2021. After about 10 hours of deliberation, jurors convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. (Octavio Jones/Reuters, via CNS)

On anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Catholic leaders say Church must do more

John Lavenburg|May 25, 2021|5 Min Read

Seminarians meet for prayer Sept. 2, 2020, at the Neocatechumenal Way's Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Hialeah, Fla. (Tom Tracy/CNS)

Seminaries commit to benchmarks on sexual misconduct policies

John Lavenburg|May 19, 2021|4 Min Read

In this Jan. 6, 2017 file photo, Cardinal Joseph Tobin gives the homily during a Mass installing him as the new archbishop of Newark, in Newark, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP.)

Cardinal Tobin highlights technology as challenge to social justice

John Lavenburg|May 17, 2021|4 Min Read

Encuentro representatives from the United States meet with German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van-Elst, delegate for catechesis at the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, at the Vatican Sept. 16, 2019. At left is Auxiliary Bishop Arturo Cepeda of Detroit. Encuentro representatives were in Rome to present findings from the Fifth National Encuentro to Pope Francis and Vatican officials (CNS photo)

New catechist ministry shows evangelization at heart of Church, U.S. leaders say

John Lavenburg|May 14, 2021|4 Min Read

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone speaks from the floor during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 11, 2019. (Bob Roller/CNS)

San Francisco archbishop insists pro-abortion Communion ban isn’t political

John Lavenburg|May 12, 2021|3 Min Read

Rohan Aggarwal, 26, a resident doctor treating patients suffering from COVID-19, looks at a patient's X-ray scan, inside the emergency room of Holy Family Hospital, during his 27-hour shift in New Delhi May 1, 2021. As India faces a massive surge in new infections and deaths caused by COVID-19, Pope Francis said he was praying for all those affected by the huge health emergency. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters, via CNS)

Catholics debate Biden’s waiver of property rights for vaccines

John Lavenburg|May 8, 2021|5 Min Read

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