From BBC:
Pope Leo has called for “deep reflection” on how migrants are treated in the United States, where he said many people were deeply affected by the controversial policy of mass deportation. In some of his strongest criticism to date of President Donald Trump’s administration, the first-ever U.S.-born Pope also warned that the U.S. bombing of Venezuelan ships, suspected of carrying drugs, risked increasing tensions in the region.
Emerging to address a bank of TV cameras outside his papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo and offering to answer “one or two questions,” Pope Leo XIV said there were people who have lived in the US “for years and years never causing problems, who have been deeply affected” by Trump’s hardline policy on migration. Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, he reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed “the foreigner.”
