Speaking to participants in the Fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements Oct. 23, Pope Leo decried policies that treat migrants “like garbage” and lamented the deadly trafficking of fentanyl, particularly in the U.S.
“States have the right and the duty to protect their borders, but this should be balanced by the moral obligation to provide refuge,” the Holy Father said, echoing the teaching of the Church reflected in the Catechism.
“Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted – even celebrated politically – that treat these ‘undesirables’ [migrants, ed.] as if they were garbage and not human beings,” he added, according to Vatican News. “Christianity, on the other hand, refers to the God who is love, who creates us and calls us to live as brothers and sisters.”
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