Pope Leo XIV Sends Former Undocumented Migrant to Trump’s West Virginia — Fulfilling the Retweet That Foretold His Papacy

Three weeks before his election, Cardinal Prevost retweeted Bishop Menjivar’s rebuke of the Trump-Bukele deportation campaign. Now he has put the same man in charge of Catholic life in coal country.

May 01, 2026

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