US EditionPope Leo decries 'grave crime' of mistreatment of immigrants
Pope Leo XIV emphasized the Church's mission to support the poor and criticized systemic injustices contributing to inequality and exploitation worldwide.
- On Thursday, Pope Leo XIV met participants at the Fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements and urged popular movements to work with Christians and governments to fill the void left by imperfect social institutions.
- The Pope warned that collapsed institutions have left people more vulnerable, saying past social institutions were 'not perfect' and criticizing systemic arbitrariousness with AI in our pockets while people lack basic human needs.
- Addressing health and addiction, the Pope criticized pharmaceutical industry promotion of a 'cult of physical wellbeing' linking it to opioids and fentanyl dependency, and warned digital platforms foster compulsive habits.
- The Church pledged support for struggles over land, housing and work as sacred rights, and Pope Leo XIV thanked popular movements and civil society as champions of humanity.
- He highlighted how coltan and lithium extraction fuels violence and threatens sovereignty, and invoking Rerum Novarum, the Pope likened 19th-century industrial abuses to today’s corporate power struggles among great powers and large corporations.
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RocketNewsPope Leo’s first 6 months: Unity, migrants, AI and a US style without the fireworks
NEW YORK (RNS) — Almost six months into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV is forging his own path in shaping the Catholic Church’s tone and priorities, Vatican experts said in a panel discussion on Wednesday (Oct. 22). Speaking at Religion News Service’s symposium “God, Government and the Algorithm: The New Rules of Belief and Power” at Trinity Commons in New York City, three leading voices on Catholicism — the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and auth…
In front of representatives of social movements, Pope Leo XIV reckons with world politics. In addition to his criticism of dealing with migrants, social inequality and capitalism, he also finds encouraging words.
Pope Leo decries 'grave crime' of mistreatment of immigrants
Pope Leo decried mistreatment of immigrants as a "grave crime" on Thursday, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants weeks after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies.
Pope Leo decries ‘inhuman measures’ that treat migrants ‘like garbage’
Speaking to participants in the Fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements Oct. 23, Pope Leo decried policies that treat migrants “like garbage” and lamented the deadly… The post Pope Leo decries ‘inhuman measures’ that treat migrants ‘like garbage’ appeared first on CatholicVote org.
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Pope: Opioid crisis, cruelty toward migrants are new social ills
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The current abuse of vulnerable migrants is not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty, Pope Leo XIV said, but rather it represents a serious crime being committed or tolerated by the government. “Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted — even celebrated politically — that treat these ‘undesirables’ as if they were garbage and not human beings,” he said without mentioning any specific country during an address …
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