{"id":87295,"date":"2026-10-08T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87295"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:57","slug":"archdiocese-of-st-louis-sues-ice-officials-over-blocked-religious-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/archdiocese-of-st-louis-sues-ice-officials-over-blocked-religious-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Archdiocese Of St. Louis Sues ICE Officials Over Blocked Religious Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>NewsNation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/immigration\/border-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> (ICE) leadership over alleged restrictions on Catholic religious services for immigration detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The federal lawsuit, filed Monday, claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass.\u00a0 The lawsuit argues that the jail\u2019s visitation policy prevents Catholic detainees from practicing important parts of their faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewsNation: The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and U.S. Immigration and.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87296,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87295\/revisions\/87296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}