Posted on 10/05/2025 9:53:20 AM PDT by Kazan
Pope Leo XIV continues to make thinly veiled jibes against the Trump administration’s stance against illegal immigration.
Speaking in front of thousands of pilgrims at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo warned that migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.”
Without singling out any country in particular, Leo said that Catholics should “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.”
Leo explained that the church was living through a “new missionary age” that tasked its members with providing “hospitality and welcome, compassion and solidarity” to migrants coming to the West.
“In the communities of ancient Christian tradition, such as those of the West, the presence of many brothers and sisters from the world’s South should be welcomed as an opportunity, through an exchange that renews the face of the Church,” he said, according to Reuters.
He did not differentiate between legal and illegal migration, nor make any reference to the countless numbers of migrants who have already migrated to the West, many of whom do not share the Christian faith.
Leo’s remarks come days after he appeared to criticize the Trump administration’s pro-life position in the context of the policy of mass deportation.
“Someone who says I’m against abortion but says I’m in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” he explained.
”So someone who says, I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected his suggestions.
“I would reject that there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration,” she responded.
“There was, however, significant, inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration as they were being trafficked and raped and beaten, in many cases killed over our United States southern border.”
The pontiff, who was elected back in May following the passing of his left-wing predecessor Pope Francis, has been flexing his liberal credentials in other ways.
Just this week, he blessed a block of ice as part of a ritual against so-called climate change, accusing Trump and the GOP of “ridiculing those who speak of global warming.”
Leo, can I crash in the Papal Apartments?
Is a lock on a door a sin?
The entire papacy is owned by the WEF
This man is already shaping up to be worse than Francis, if that’s possible.
When this a-hole Pope opens the Vatican to migrants, then he can spout off about what the US is doing. Until then, shut the F up.
When I see Roman homeless camped inside the Vatican walls, I’ll think about believing him.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.
In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.
After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
How many Roman Catholic invaders did we get under Roman Catholic Biden?
Another commie pope dude.
Sigh ….
Let me know when he’s going to send some missionaries to the Muslims in Europe or in their home countries.
I want to move into the Vatican. I AM A REFUGEE!
Can we please once get a pope who is in favor of the survival of the Western Civilization Catholicism helped create?
You own a country Leo, why don’t you be a good witness and flood it with unvetted immigrants.
Popo Lee-o is a crapforbrains heretic. Perhaps worse than Bergoglio. Certainly he’s more of a problem for Christian America. My fervent prayer is that the Lord remove him from his post by whatever means the Almighty deems appropriate.
Bergolio rigged the deck of Cardinals with his woke loyalists. You will never see another conservative Pope in your lifetime.
Did we miss the second part, where Leo admonished the newcomers to understand they they’re being welcomed by existing societies, and that they should obey the law and respect the pluralism of the West? Of course not. Like Francis before him, he’s sees mass migration as a one way street, where nothing is expected of the invading hordes
True. Not even Francis prayed for a block of ice.
Start deporting folks to the Vatican City now!
Man, this is going to get really bad. Who handed the pope the script?
Catholics: TAKE NOTE.
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