Pope Leo’s First Major Document Rebukes Trumpian Walls, Defends Migrants and the Poor
The American pontiff says real Christians build bridges, not barriers — and holds up a U.S. saint as proof.
Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te (“I Have Loved You”), is a powerful call to stand with migrants and the poor — and a pointed critique of Donald Trump’s obsession with building walls.
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