Pope Francis has called out President Trump’s stance on illegal immigrants and has critiqued Vice President JD Vance’s theology.
In a letter to U.S. Catholic bishops, Francis wrote that bishops should not agree with the Trump administration’s policy that the illegal status of migrants results in criminality.
Francis wrote that deporting people “damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.”
The Pope also criticized JD Vance’s statement that “people should care for their family, communities, and country before caring for others.”
The Pope, in response to Vance, wrote, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,”
Pope Francis criticized the Trump Administration’s stance on migrants, calling the president’s pledge of mass deportations “a major crisis.”
In a strongly worded letter to the U.S. Catholic bishops, Francis wrote that it’s important for Catholics to disagree with any measure that identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.
Francis also said that deporting people — who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, exploitation, and persecution — “damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.”
The letter also appears to reply to remarks by Vice President JD Vance in which he said people should care for their family, communities, and country before caring for others.
Francis instead wrote that people should meditate on love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.
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