The cardinal charged with overseeing the Vatican’s study and response of the global migratory phenomena called for expanded legal pathways for migrants and called out a misrepresentative “negative narrative” about the church’s migration work.
Cardinal Fabio Baggio, undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Vatican’s chief reference point on migration, told the National Catholic Reporter Feb. 19 that Pope Leo XIV shares the “the same pastoral concern” on migration as his Pope Francis, who made caring for migrants a cornerstone of his pontificate.
In the same conversation, conducted in Italian, the cardinal pushed back on criticism that the church engages in issues around migration because it seeks funding from governments, stating that the global Catholic Church often acts to support migrants “without the necessary funds to do so.”
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