Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly affirmed U.S. bishops’ message condemning the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, calling on Americans to listen to the migrants and treat them humanely and with dignity.
The pope was asked about the “special message” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted during their general assembly last week in Baltimore.
The bishops blasted President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda and the “vilification” of migrants, expressing concern over the fear and anxiety immigration raids stoking in communities, as well as the denial of pastoral care to migrants in detention centers.
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Leo, the first American pope, said he appreciated the U.S. bishops’ message and encouraged Catholics and all people of goodwill to listen and treat migrants with dignity, even if they are in the country illegally.
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“But when people are living good lives, and many of them for 10, 15, 20 years, to treat them in a way that is extremely disrespectful to say the least — and there’s been some violence unfortunately — I think that the bishops have been very clear in what they said,” he told reporters as he left the papal country house south of Rome.
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