Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in the United States

Photo: Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration – May 18, 2025. Photo credit: Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via Flickr. US government work. Associated Press in Vatican City. AP News – updated November 5, 2025.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that “many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now.” The Chicago-born pope was responding Tuesday to a range of geopolitical questions from reporters outside the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, including what kind of spiritual rights migrants in U.S. custody should have, U.S. military attacks on suspected drug traffickers off Venezuela and the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East. […]

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