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Kimberley Heatherington writes for OSV News from Virginia.

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Employees are seen working on Gambert Shirts at company's manufacturing factory in Newark, N.J., March 5, 2025, amid tariffs enacted by the Trump administration. Gambert Shirts company has been a maker of high-quality custom dress shirts since 1933. (OSV News photo/Mike Segar, Reuters)

US bishops ask Trump in joint letter to pursue global debt relief in the Jubilee Year

Kimberley Heatherington|Apr 9, 2025|4 Min Read

Argie Aguirre, a member of the River Warriors, gathers trash from the polluted Pasig River in Manila, Philippines, June 22, 2021. Pope Francis released his landmark environmental encyclical "Laudato Si'" 10 years ago May 14, 2015. (OSV News photo/Eloisa Lopez, Reuters)

Faith

As 'Laudato Si'' turns 10, experts urge greater response to pope's urgent message on climate

Kimberley Heatherington|Apr 1, 2025|7 Min Read

A family is pictured in a file photo walking to a homeless shelter in New York City. (OSV News photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters)

Expanding child tax credits seen as a pro-life, anti-poverty lifeline for families

Kimberley Heatherington|Mar 14, 2025|6 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Jan. 23, 2025. Trump signed an executive order Feb. 19, to develop policy recommendations to expand access to and affordability of in vitro fertilization. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

Trump's IVF order fuels mass destruction of human embryos, not birth rate

Kimberley Heatherington and Peter Jesserer Smith|Feb 19, 2025|8 Min Read

A couple is pictured in a file photo walking along Gillson Beach holding hands as the sun sets in Wilmette, Ill. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2023, 46.4% of American adults -- 117.6 million -- were single. That figure included those who were divorced, widowed or never married. (OSV News photo/Jim Young, Reuters)

Faith

A good match is hard to find: Catholics try to renew a 'hopeless' dating culture

Kimberley Heatherington|Feb 13, 2025|7 Min Read

A migrant from Mexico's Chiapas state looks through his family's immigration paperwork at Casa Alitas in Tucson, Ariz., March 15, 2024. A federal judge in Texas Nov. 7 struck down a Biden administration program that gave a pathway to legal status and citizenship for U.S. citizens' spouses in the country without authorization and the couples' children. (OSV News photo/Rebecca Noble, Reuters)

Migrants in US programs highly vulnerable to mass deportation push

Kimberley Heatherington|Jan 3, 2025|7 Min Read

Hundreds of people joined “Do Not Be Afraid: March and Vigil for Human Dignity,” a March 21, 2024, event organized by the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, along with organizations such as Hope Border Institute as well as religious and community leaders from the borderlands. (OSV News photo/Diego Adame, courtesy of Hope Border Institute)

Life issues – from abortion to immigration – took center stage in 2024

Kimberley Heatherington|Dec 31, 2024|7 Min Read

After attending Mass, people leave San Xavier del Bac Mission in Pima County, Ariz., outside Tucson, May 28, 2023. Ten state faith leaders -- including Catholic Bishops Edward J. Weisenburger of Tucson and John P. Dolan of Phoenix -- wrote an op-ed column published Dec. 28, 2024, in the Arizona Republic, denouncing reported proposals to allow immigration raids on churches, houses of worship, hospitals, schools and other locations currently deemed off-limits due to their sensitive nature once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Arizona bishops, faith leaders denounce spectre of immigration raids on churches

Kimberley Heatherington|Dec 30, 2024|5 Min Read

Secretary of State of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York Sept. 28, 2024. (OSV News photo/Eduardo Munoz, via Reuters)

'Peace is only possible if it is wanted,' Cardinal Parolin tells U.N. assembly

Kimberley Heatherington|Sep 28, 2024|5 Min Read

Haitian migrants who are seeking asylum in the United States wait at a makeshift encampment near the border between the U.S. and Mexico, in Matamoros, Mexico, Dec. 9, 2022. (OSV News photo/Daniel Becerril, Reuters)

Advocates for migrants, refugees see challenging times ahead no matter the election outcome

Kimberley Heatherington|Sep 25, 2024|5 Min Read

Project coordinator Angela Cianci and Jessica Freyne, executive director of Providence Pregnancy Center, stand inside Reborn Boutique, a boutique thrift store in Scranton, Pa., July 20, 2024. All proceeds from sales at the store benefit Providence Pregnancy Center. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Captured By Mary Photography)

Post-Dobbs, Catholic maternity homes provide critical support for moms in need

Kimberley Heatherington|Sep 20, 2024|7 Min Read

A mother feeds her newborn child, after giving birth in the Family Birth Center at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., Feb. 1, 2022. Vice President Kamala Harris has suggested a robust increase in the child tax credit, while Ohio Sen. JD Vance has floated a similar proposal; some pro-life leaders say the initiatives, if passed by Congress, could help reduce poverty and aid some low-income parents in choosing life. (OSV News photo/Emily Elconin, Reuters)

Dueling child tax credit plans: Could they help more couples embrace life?

Kimberley Heatherington|Sep 3, 2024|7 Min Read

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