Pope Leo urges respect for migrants, challenging Trump views

Pope issues direct dig at Trump as key allies glare from pews

Pope Leo XIV issued a Donald Trump putdown while two of the president’s key allies sat watching from the pews.Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both made the trip to the Vatican to witness the new pontiff’s inaugural mass Sunday. As they watched, the pope — who has criticize...

Parallel stories, stories on the contrary, fate or will. On the streets of our cities pass by the young people, who are often the young people born in other continents today. M. ended up badly, stabbed in the most multiethnic neighborhood of the city of Turin. Irregular, he had written someone. The father, African in Italy for 26 years, was offended by that word. It was a regular family reunion, so with the demonstration that the father had suff…

Pope Leo stands as a counterpoint to Trump’s polarising leadership

Despite reservations about his US background, Leo’s ties to the Global South and support for the marginalised have won him global acceptance.

Could 'woke' Pope Leo be a counterweight to Trump?

The contrast of Pope Leo and Donald Trump goes far beyond Christendom or American economic power; it goes to what we want from our leaders, who we will follow, who we will heed, and where our future lies.

FULL TEXT: Pope Leo XIV addresses Centesimus Annus Foundation on Catholic social teaching

Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing during a meeting with participants in the Jubilee of Eastern Churches on May 14, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 17, 2025 / 09:42 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV... [...]

The Pope says that in current reality there are "wars, climate change, growing inequalities, forced and conflicting migrations, stigmatized poverty, dissuasive technological innovations".