The Trump Administration’s immigration agenda, as well as some recent comments from Vice President J.D. Vance, have received criticism from a surprising corner: Pope Francis.
According to The National Catholic Reporter, the pontiff has written a letter to U.S. bishops, proclaiming the Administration’s mass deportation plans as a “major crisis.”
“The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.” https://t.co/BILoqQL2Jh
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“I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality,” the Pope wrote in the letter.
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“The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.”
The pontiff also praised American bishops who have advocated for migrants.
Pope Francis also had something to say about some recent comments by Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019. While not mentioning Vance by name, the Pope appeared to reference the vice president’s recent statement that “you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.”
JD Vance: “There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world”
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“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings,” the Pope wrote in his letter. “The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation.”
Pope Francis concluded by asking the faithful to “not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.”
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