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“The new Immigration and Customs Enforcement measures have been overcrowding U.S. facilities, so they now need to send some deportees to other countries.”

President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House April 16 that he does not see a meeting with Pope Leo XIV as “necessary” after his social media tirade.

“If you’re a Catholic and you don’t fully back the government, it’s seen as grave disloyalty. This is why we face serious problems here.”

Speaking to journalists at Castel Gandolfo April 7, and without naming Trump, Pope Leo called the president’s threat “truly unacceptable.”

The U.S. bishops’ president said that President Donald Trump threatening Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight” without a deal was morally unjustifiable.

At the opening of the mobile museum, the CEO of Catholic Charities USA said, the venture “is a testament to mercy, service, hope, compassion and faith.”

“Decisions about campus operations are made on an ongoing basis, guided by official updates and the evolving situation,” the school said.

On March 24, the feast day of St. Óscar Romero, hundreds joined in a march and vigil calling to end mass deportations and mass detention in El Paso, Texas.

Organizers of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage shared details of the event taking place May 24-July 5 during the U.S. 250th anniversary.

“This conflict has religious connotations, but they are manipulations: those who wish to bring religion into it exploit the name of God.”