After Pope Leo XIV urged the American Church to unite and speak out “with one voice” against the mistreatment of migrants, thousands of Catholics across the country hit the streets this week.
YAY! Bless you, Pope Leo and all church groups who are praying for all persecuted immigrants as well as people who are targeted for not being or appearing to be Anglo! 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼🩷🙏🏼🧡
If only they were actually praying for migrants in their churches. My local parish church has conspicuously NOT been offering up prayers for the persecuted immigrants, as Leo has urged Americans to do, and doubtless that is because the local bishop is not stressing it.
That is your church. I live in Iowa and the four bishops wrote a pastoral letter to all the parishes supporting migrants. At a Mass I attended the priest explained the letter and his homily was about welcoming the stranger. About a third of my church parishioners are Hispanic or from Africa. Try a different parish.
Agree here. @Ellen, look to join another parish. Where I am, our church is almost half Hispanic migrant workers. I’ve worked with them a bit in planning committees and they are the nicest humans that just work hard and enjoy life.
Here the holy father echoes the Gospel call of blessed St. Luke.
Luke’s distinctive take equips communities not only to resist oppression tactically — but to embody a counter-state ethic: one that diagnoses institutional evil, centers the vulnerable, pursues accountable yet restorative justice, builds Spirit-shaped alternatives, and cultivates cultural forms incompatible with sadistic governance.
His Gospel calls the church to be both sanctuary and prophetic agent—healing social relations, reforming structures, and working for a public life ordered to mercy and dignity.
We pray from for migrants, the marginalized, those in areas of unrest every mass during petitions. The Archdiocese of Detroit stands firm with Pope Leo XIV. ✝️🙏
Interesting that most of the people participating are elderly white women. It looked like any other rally from Democrats these days, They seem to be people locked in the 1970's. The rest of our country and as we are seeing around the West, and even in the church has moved on to the world we live in today.
Could be because elderly white women are not targeted (yet) by this administration, unlike our brown neighbors, therefore we have a particular duty to speak up for the vulnerable.
YAY! Bless you, Pope Leo and all church groups who are praying for all persecuted immigrants as well as people who are targeted for not being or appearing to be Anglo! 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼🩷🙏🏼🧡
If only they were actually praying for migrants in their churches. My local parish church has conspicuously NOT been offering up prayers for the persecuted immigrants, as Leo has urged Americans to do, and doubtless that is because the local bishop is not stressing it.
That is your church. I live in Iowa and the four bishops wrote a pastoral letter to all the parishes supporting migrants. At a Mass I attended the priest explained the letter and his homily was about welcoming the stranger. About a third of my church parishioners are Hispanic or from Africa. Try a different parish.
Agree here. @Ellen, look to join another parish. Where I am, our church is almost half Hispanic migrant workers. I’ve worked with them a bit in planning committees and they are the nicest humans that just work hard and enjoy life.
Time to change churches or at least question why
Seems like you might want to question your parish about that. Doesn’t seem right and they need to be called out on it.
I was just about to say that. The local bishop is probably quietly expressing his opinion on the matter. I’m sure other churches are speaking up!!!
There are Inquisition Catholics and Christian Catholics. You must have one of the inquisition types
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This is a man sent by God! Not that fake orange thing! God bless Pope Leo!!
He’s a breath of fresh air next to Trump.
Here the holy father echoes the Gospel call of blessed St. Luke.
Luke’s distinctive take equips communities not only to resist oppression tactically — but to embody a counter-state ethic: one that diagnoses institutional evil, centers the vulnerable, pursues accountable yet restorative justice, builds Spirit-shaped alternatives, and cultivates cultural forms incompatible with sadistic governance.
His Gospel calls the church to be both sanctuary and prophetic agent—healing social relations, reforming structures, and working for a public life ordered to mercy and dignity.
decades long plot to cheapen American labor. Illegal immigrants should get respectful due process. Legal, enforced immigration is the goal.
Standing outside gestapo headquarters. As that is what Ice is. Call it by name.
Thank you. Stop the genocide.
We pray from for migrants, the marginalized, those in areas of unrest every mass during petitions. The Archdiocese of Detroit stands firm with Pope Leo XIV. ✝️🙏
Interesting that most of the people participating are elderly white women. It looked like any other rally from Democrats these days, They seem to be people locked in the 1970's. The rest of our country and as we are seeing around the West, and even in the church has moved on to the world we live in today.
Could be because elderly white women are not targeted (yet) by this administration, unlike our brown neighbors, therefore we have a particular duty to speak up for the vulnerable.