Security has become such an inflammatory issue on both a political and social level that reasoned debate around the topic seems almost impossible. 

CUERNAVACA, Mexico – An editorial in a publication of the Archdiocese of Mexico City condemned Mexican companies wishing to work on the proposed wall being built on the U.S.-Mexico border as "traitors."

WASHINGTON – In a joint statement, Catholic bishops whose dioceses are along the U.S.-Mexico border spoke of the "pain, the fear, and the anguish" they're seeing in immigrants and vowed to follow the example of the Pope in building "bridges, rather than the walls of exclusion and exploitation."

Catholic colleges and universities in Canada and the United States have condemned the Trump administrationöÏÓãÊÓƵapp policy of closing  America to refugees, banning all travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and building a wall along the Mexican border.

VATICAN CITY – U.S. President Donald TrumpöÏÓãÊÓƵapp proposed border wall with Mexico raises serious questions about AmericaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp moral standing as the poor would bear the brunt of the suffering, a leading Catholic theologian says.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico – The bishops of Mexico on Thursday reacted to United States' president Donald Trump's executive order to build a wall on the nations' border by urging a more thoughtful response to legitimate security concerns.

MEXICO CITY – Catholics working with the thousands of migrants transiting Mexico in their attempts to reach the United States said a border barricade will fail to dissuade those desperately fleeing countries in Central America with some of the highest homicide rates on earth.

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration criticized President Donald Trump's executive memorandum to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it would "put immigrant lives needlessly in harm's way."