Pope’s rebuke of Trump deportation appears to conflict with Catholic catechism teaching
The Catechism of the Catholic Church recognizes political leaders have the capacity to regulate immigration to the country for the common good of its citizens.
By Steven Richards
Published: March 8, 2025 10:50pm
Pope Francis’ rebuke of President Donald Trump’s deportation policies appears to conflict with his own past statements and the teachings outlined in the U.S. Catholic Catechism advise politicians to enact policies for the common good, but emphasize country’s right to regulate immigration.
The Trump administration’s stated policy of mass deportations of illegal immigrants stirred backlash from Catholic authorities in the United States. The controversy came to a head when Pope Francis directly criticized the policy in a letter to U.S. Bishops, calling the plans a “major crisis.”
His Holiness, who the Pew Research Center estimates is the spiritual leader for roughly 53 million Catholic U.S. adults, said that though countries have the right to defend their borders and keep citizens safe from criminals, “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.”
"Comparing the plight of migrants to the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt in the Bible, the Pope reaffirmed the Church’s teaching that immigrants have the right to seek shelter and safe conditions outside of their homeland.
"Politically charged comments"
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