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  Pope Leo names priest who criticized Trump's immigration crackdown as West Virginia bishop The next bishop for West Virginia Catholics will be an El Salvador-born advocate for immigrants who has opposed U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown policies. Pope Leo XIV announced Friday the appointment of the Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, an auxiliary bishop in Washington, D.C., as the new leader of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which comprises West Virginia, one of the nation's least racially diverse states. The Catholic Church has long advocated for humane treatment of migrants and refugees in the United States and around the world. Menjivar-Ayala and other U.S. church leaders have strongly condemned the Trump administration's mass deportation policies while also affirming a nation's right to control its borders and urging reconciliation. VIDEO OF THE DAY:  Must-see Supreme Court update rocks midterm election Brian Tyler Cohen sits down with Ari ...

  VOTING BY MAIL IS IMPORTANT TO NUMEROUS PEOPLE - MILITARY MEMBERS  STATIONED OVERSEAS, NATIVE AMERICANS, THOSE WHO ARE DISABLED OR  WITHOUT TRANSPORTATION, THOSE WHO TRAVEL ON BUSINESS AND WILL BE  OUT OF TOWN .... PLEASE SPEAK OUT TO PROTECT MAIL-IN VOTING!  LET'S STOP VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND VOTER SUPPRESSION! This year the Postal Service may decide the outcome of the midterm elections. Right now, the right to vote is at risk because of changes inside the Postal Service that are slowing down mail and delaying when ballots receive a postmark. Every election, we work to educate voters about why voting matters for now and for how our descendants will live. We organize to prevent voter suppression. This year we will need to protect the right to vote in person and by mail. Now, a voter could do everything right, drop their ballot in a mailbox on or before Election Day, and may still have it rejected, because postmarks are not a minor detail. They’re how elec...