Asked about President Trump’s decision to send 400 National Guard troops to Chicago, Pope Leo XIV says: “I prefer not to comment about political choices [made] within the United States. Thank you very much.”
That didn't last long.
Posted on 10/08/2025 12:59:50 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue.
Leo, the first U.S. pope, was handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of deportation under the Trump administration's policies during the meeting, which included bishops and social workers from the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Our Holy Father … is very personally concerned about these matters," El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who took part in the meeting, told Reuters. "He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue."
"It means a lot to all of us to know of his personal desire that we continue to speak out," said Seitz. The Vatican did not immediately comment on the pope's meeting.
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That didn't last long.
Political Pope Ping
How many illegal immigrants live in The Vatican?
Tell you what pope we’re just gonna move them all to Vatican City how about that?
Stay in your lane, Padre.
Mr. Provost can express his opinion same as any other ex-pat American citizen
He should focus on telling Europe to get the Muslims out or he should do what any decent Church would do and set forth to convert them to what he believes to be the one true religion. Unless he doesn’t really believe it.
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I would torch that fella with the beanie cap if I were POTUS Trump. How dare a man of “faith”, who lives in one of the most secure environments in the world, hide behind the cloth while disrespecting the policy of a POTUS.
The gig is up. The election of a pope from the US was not a coincidence. They will do whatever it takes to try and destroy the USA with horrible and unlawful immigration.
Fly all illegal aliens to the Vatican going forward.
Sigh, back in the days when I was Catholic, so was the Pope.
The main reason this guy was elected pope. Another political, pro gay, pro abortion heretic.
And how does this save souls? Paul was against slavery, but he never distracted from his primary (and only) mission. Sounds like the correct focus to me.
That’s where Separation of Church and State comes in...We don’t tell the Church what to do...and they don’t tell us what to do.
Start shipping those criminal illegals to the Vatican.
“I’m saying this as a lifelong Catholic . . . . He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us. He wants to attack us securing our border? He has a wall around the Vatican, does he not? So he has a wall to protect his people and himself, but we can’t have a wall around the United States,”
Tom Homan's response to the prior Pope is equally applicable to Leo.
Sigh, back in the days when I was Catholic, so was the Pope.
Yes, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t live the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church left me !! When the Pope equates the killing of human embryos with protecting the laws of our country against an illegal invasion and does so as the Vicar of Christ with all the authority of the Church it’s obvious to me that this Church has lost all moral authority!
As long as this American pope is becoming overtly political by asking American bishops to criticize a President who is enforcing American law, perhaps it would be appropriate to ask him if he voted for Obama, Clinton and Biden.
“Why doesn’t the Pope recommend that the illegal aliens confess the sins of their illegal entries, self-deport, and return the proper way?”
Key question.
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