Pope Leo On The USCCB Special Message
On Tuesday, Pope Leo made a statement that endorsed the "Special Message" the USCCB issued the week prior. According to the USCCB , Pope Leo told reporters in Castel Gandolfo that the pastoral message is "a very important statement. I would invite especially all Catholics, but people of goodwill, to listen carefully to what they said." "No one has said that the United States should have open borders," the pope said. "I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter." However, he said, in enforcing immigration policy "we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have." "If people are in the United States illegally, there are ways to treat that," he said. "There are courts. There's a system of justice," but the system has "a lot of problems" that should be addressed. The video I saw strongly suggested Leo...