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Pope Leo meets with Chicago anti-ICE activists at Vatican
LifeSite News ^ | October 29, 2026 | Antonio Cambria

Posted on 10/29/2026 2:48:37 PM PDT by ebb tide

Pope Leo meets with Chicago anti-ICE activists at Vatican

Pope Leo met with Chicago auxiliary Bishop José Maldonado and members of the so-called Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, a leftist, pro-immigration group.

Following his weekly general audience on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV met with clerical and lay activists for immigrants detained by ICE in his native Chicago.

Following his October 28 audience, the American pontiff met with Bishop José María García Maldonado, auxiliary bishop of Chicago, and several priests and lay members of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), a group that specializes in “bringing pastoral care” to local migrants detained by ICE, per Vatican News. Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Leo has repeatedly emphasized caring for “migrants,” rarely distinguishing between legal and illegal immigrants.

“You have inspired us and countless Bishops to carry on this work across the country,” Tiffany Swann-Covington, a lay member, said she told Pope Leo during the meeting. “Please continue to pray for us and encourage us through your words and your guidance.”

This story is developing…


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commiepope; ebbspam; illegals; invaders; multipledailyspam; romancatholic; splintersectinrome; synodalchurch; synodalpopes; topdownsalvationmgt

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Is it just a coincidence that this meeting occurred during the midst of U.S. mid-term elections?
1 posted on 10/29/2026 2:48:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I had no idea that I.C.E. was such a problem in Vatican City.


2 posted on 10/29/2026 2:49:30 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...

Ping


3 posted on 10/29/2026 2:49:52 PM PDT by ebb tide ("Rage-bait" is only in the eye of the flaming modernist lupi.)
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To: ebb tide

He’s the Obama Woke Pope

No wonder he met with David Axelrod right at the start.


4 posted on 10/29/2026 2:50:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ebb tide

And they did this after fumigating the place when Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden left with blessings. More work.


5 posted on 10/29/2026 2:53:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ebb tide
An old Chicago Democrat meeting with some of his old comrades.

Incidentally, he also happens to be Pope.

6 posted on 10/29/2026 2:59:12 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was always part of the program.)
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To: ebb tide

I needn’t repeat myself with links about the laws against immigrants entering, intruders going over the border or the Vatican’s historic wall being 40 feet thick at its thickest.

Despite the colorful historic Swiss Guard uniforms, the Vatican uses undercover police, snipers, heavy duty automatic weapons including large caliber rounds and hundreds of on duty police with orders to shoot to kill threats.

And hundreds of years of not only allowing the death penalty but paying for an official executioner who used a bludgeon, various blades and crushing devices before the guillotine became the method of choice. People who saw the Vatican executioner walking on the path got excited and gathered together hundreds to eagerly watch what they knew was an execution coming.


7 posted on 10/29/2026 3:00:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ebb tide

The Vatican built a big beautiful wall centuries ago, imagine that!


8 posted on 10/29/2026 3:02:03 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Laiken Riley and Iryna Zarutska are my daughters. Charlie Kirk is my brother )
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To: ebb tide

It’s time for Leo’s “Catholic Church” to start paying taxes to help provide everything for his failed socialist illegal aliens. That’s not the job of the American people to pay for his freeloading maggots’ FREE RIDE!


9 posted on 10/29/2026 3:10:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Dual citizenship" has got to go. Those who want it should have to explain what they are hiding.)
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To: ebb tide

It’s time for Leo’s “Catholic Church” to start paying taxes to help provide everything for his failed socialist illegal aliens. That’s not the job of the American people to pay for his freeloading maggots’ FREE RIDE!


10 posted on 10/29/2026 3:10:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Dual citizenship" has got to go. Those who want it should have to explain what they are hiding.)
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To: ebb tide

It’s time for Leo’s “Catholic Church” to start paying taxes to help provide everything for his failed socialist illegal aliens. That’s not the job of the American people to pay for his freeloading maggots’ FREE RIDE!


11 posted on 10/29/2026 3:10:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Dual citizenship" has got to go. Those who want it should have to explain what they are hiding.)
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To: ebb tide

Has Bob Prevost (A/K/A Leo XIV) surrendered/been stripped of his US Citizenship?

And is he 4 (IV) better than Malcolm Little (A/K/A Malcolm X, A/K/A Detroit Red) who was just a 10, not a 14? And is the street name of Prevost “Chicago Red”?


12 posted on 10/29/2026 4:05:10 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ebb tide

I wonder if the commander of Pope Leo’s Swiss Guards was at the meeting.

I say that because the Swiss Guards are utterly ruthless in removing unauthorized people from the Vatican. Maybe these pro-immigration folks can convince the Swiss Guards to stand aside, and let all immigrants in.

🤔


13 posted on 10/29/2026 4:07:21 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: ebb tide

Unlikely coincidence.

That says something about this Pope and sadly the senior leadership of the Catholic Church.

What’s funny is that it was Trump that allowed religious institutions in the US far greater freedom of movement in their sermons and positions in issues, pulling the IRS treating their tax status off their back.


14 posted on 10/29/2026 4:23:18 PM PDT by Red6
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To: frank ballenger

All this is true, it is said the Lord hates a hypocrite. I think frank and now leo are something much worse. I am a Catholic but l cannot be a part of what this church has become. It is fallen and indwelt.


15 posted on 10/29/2026 4:38:28 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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