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Pope Leo invokes criticism of Trump's policies in first major document
Yahoo! News ^ | Thu, October 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM CDT | Joshua McElwee

Posted on 10/09/2025 2:04:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo urged the world's Catholics to help immigrants in his first major document, which was released on Thursday and invoked one of the late Pope Francis' strongest criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies.

Leo's document, known as an apostolic exhortation, is focused on the needs of the world's poor. It calls for widespread changes to the global market system to address rising inequality and to help people living paycheck-to-paycheck.

The 104-page text started as a writing project by Francis, who was unable to complete it before his death in April after 12 years leading the global Church of 1.4 billion people. It was finished by Leo, the first U.S. pope.

"I am happy to make this document my own – adding some reflections – and to issue it at the beginning of my own pontificate," Leo writes at the beginning of the text.

DOCUMENT REFERENCES CRITICISM OF BORDER WALLS

Elected in May to replace Francis, Leo has shown a much more reserved style than his predecessor, who frequently criticised the Trump administration.

But Leo has been ramping up his disapproval in recent weeks, drawing heated backlash from some prominent conservative Catholics.

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

"Where the world sees threats, (the Church) sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges," Leo says, referencing Francis' 2016 criticism of Trump as "not Christian" because of the president's plan in his first term to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The White House has said Trump was elected based on his many promises, including to deport "criminal illegal aliens".

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1 posted on 10/09/2025 2:04:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can Trump Tariff him ? LOL


2 posted on 10/09/2025 2:05:36 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

Vatican penalties for coming into Vatican territory illegally:

1. Monetary fine of up to 25,000 euros

2. Prison sentence of up to four years

3. Ban on entering the Vatican for up to 15 years.

3 posted on 10/09/2025 2:08:58 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Being a ardent Catholic, I’ve already ex-communicated this leftist along with his predecessor.


4 posted on 10/09/2025 2:09:23 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: pissant

Pope Frank(enstein) II.


5 posted on 10/09/2025 2:09:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh man, Robert Prevost, you are going to outshine Bergoglio in your work for Satan.


6 posted on 10/09/2025 2:10:02 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: butlerweave

If you want to hurt the pope tax the money being sent by the local catholic church to the Vatican


7 posted on 10/09/2025 2:10:10 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly why this clown was elected.


8 posted on 10/09/2025 2:10:33 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How many illegals is the Pope bringing into the Vatican, the answer is NONE, he has a BIG wall around it


9 posted on 10/09/2025 2:11:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

pretty much.


10 posted on 10/09/2025 2:12:06 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

You had to have made that up. You’re making it look like the catholic church only wants policies thst enrich the catholic church. Hate speech.


11 posted on 10/09/2025 2:12:16 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pope Leo is a sac of crap - like his church.


12 posted on 10/09/2025 2:13:05 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WHEN THE VATICAN OPENS IT OWN DOORS-—IT CAN HAVE AN OPINION-—

OTHERWISE THE POPE IS JUST STIRRING THE POT.


13 posted on 10/09/2025 2:13:34 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But Durbin is AOK!


14 posted on 10/09/2025 2:14:02 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pope Soros II


15 posted on 10/09/2025 2:14:16 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

16 FEET THICK IN SOME PLACES


16 posted on 10/09/2025 2:14:17 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the Chicago Catholic commie picks up and runs with Frank’s torch


17 posted on 10/09/2025 2:14:55 PM PDT by Third Person (C)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Try removing the log from your eye before you look for the splinter in Trumps, Il Papa. Or did you forget that particular scripture?


18 posted on 10/09/2025 2:15:13 PM PDT by Dave911
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Instead of preaching God and salvation through Jesus, another activist pope uses his voice to condemn not a religious leader (as Christ did calling certain rabbis vipers) but a political leader over political issues, not a religious issue, but a worldly one.


19 posted on 10/09/2025 2:20:38 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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Why doesn’t the Pope call on these 3rd world countries to take proper care of their own citizens...like Nigeria?


20 posted on 10/09/2025 2:22:35 PM PDT by DHerion
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