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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Can Trump Tariff him ? LOL
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.
Being a ardent Catholic, I’ve already ex-communicated this leftist along with his predecessor.
Pope Frank(enstein) II.
Oh man, Robert Prevost, you are going to outshine Bergoglio in your work for Satan.
If you want to hurt the pope tax the money being sent by the local catholic church to the Vatican
Exactly why this clown was elected.
How many illegals is the Pope bringing into the Vatican, the answer is NONE, he has a BIG wall around it
pretty much.
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.
Pope Leo is a sac of crap - like his church.
WHEN THE VATICAN OPENS IT OWN DOORS-—IT CAN HAVE AN OPINION-—
OTHERWISE THE POPE IS JUST STIRRING THE POT.
But Durbin is AOK!
Pope Soros II
16 FEET THICK IN SOME PLACES
the Chicago Catholic commie picks up and runs with Frank’s torch
Try removing the log from your eye before you look for the splinter in Trumps, Il Papa. Or did you forget that particular scripture?
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.
Why doesn’t the Pope call on these 3rd world countries to take proper care of their own citizens...like Nigeria?
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