Amid Trump-Vance ICE Raids, Hicks Defends Immigrants at NYC St. Patrick’s Day Mass

In his first St. Patrick’s Day Mass, Pope Leo XIV’s most important American appointment quoted Hamilton, told the story of an Irish farmer who died to save a priest, then turned to today’s immigrants.

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