- US Vice President JD Vance called the Vatican’s stance on migration troubling.
- Pope Leo XIV criticizes the administration of Donald Trump for anti-immigration measures.
- Leo XIV asks the United States to think deeply about the treatment of migrants.
- Vance disagrees with the Vatican’s statements on migration, despite his Catholic beliefs.
- At the same time, Leo XIV condemns the US war against Iran.
US Vice President JD Vance called the Vatican’s stance on immigration troubling Wednesday night. He responded to the statements of Pope Leo XIV, who repeatedly criticized the current American government for its anti-immigration measures. Reuters drew attention to it, TASR informs.
Leo XIV, the first US-born pope, recently called on his country to “think deeply” about the treatment of migrants under President Donald Trump’s administration. According to him, the Trump administration treats immigrants with “extreme disrespect” and criticized the “inhumane treatment” of them.
“I really think that some of the statements that have come out of the Vatican, especially on the issue of migration, have been disturbing and ultimately I disagree with them,” he says.l Vance, who is a converted Catholic, in an interview with Fox News.
“I tell the Catholic leaders I talk to who disagree with our immigration policy that I don’t have a hostile attitude towards it. I invite them to have a discussion, but at the same time I encourage them to remember that mass migration has its victims.” said the US Vice President. In addition to measures in the area of migration, Pope Leo XIV. he also criticized the United States’ war against Iran. Therefore, Trump has already verbally attacked the Pope several times.
