Pope Francis took a clear-cut shot at President Donald Trump and his administration in a scathing new letter released today that takes aim at the president’s horrifying new immigration policies, deeming them un-Christian.
The Pope first describes Donald’s push for mass and unchecked deportation as a “major crisis” before pointedly outlining exactly how and why those sickening policies go directly against the teachings of Jesus Christ — despite Donald Trump’s incessant claims that he’s a devout and God-fearing Christian.
Pope Francis writes:
The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness. This is not a minor issue: an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized.”
The religious leader went on to take aim at Trump’s Vice President J.D. Vance for recently invoking the Catholic concept of ordo amoris, or “order of love,” to justify the Trump Administration’s horrific mass deportation plans.
“The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation,” the Pope wrote with regard to Vance. “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan,” that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”
Pope Francis went on to directly warn President Trump that any policy that is “built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.”
You can read Pope Francis’ full letter here.
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