Pope Leo XIV says DHS should allow communion at Chicago area ICE facility.
Pope Leo XIV has spoken in opposition to the Department of Homeland Security denying a coalition of Catholic priests, nuns and other clergy entry to the Broadview ICE processing facility outside Chicago.
The big picture: For decades, clergy have gathered weekly outside Broadview, notably Catholic nuns, to offer prayers for the immigrants inside. Since the launch of "Operation Midway Blitz" this year, Sister JoAnn Persch told the Sun-Times her relationship with officers at the facility has frayed, despite being welcomed before President Trump took office.
Driving the news: Pope Leo was asked Tuesday about clergy being denied entry into the facility, and he responded that he would like to ask "the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs of those people," Chicago Catholic, the archdiocese's newspaper, reported.
"Jesus says very clearly that at the end of the world, we're going to be asked, you know, 'How did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not?' And I think that there's a deep reflection that needs to be made in terms of what's happening," Leo added.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/11/05/pope-leo-clergy-access-broadview-ice
The big picture: For decades, clergy have gathered weekly outside Broadview, notably Catholic nuns, to offer prayers for the immigrants inside. Since the launch of "Operation Midway Blitz" this year, Sister JoAnn Persch told the Sun-Times her relationship with officers at the facility has frayed, despite being welcomed before President Trump took office.
Driving the news: Pope Leo was asked Tuesday about clergy being denied entry into the facility, and he responded that he would like to ask "the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs of those people," Chicago Catholic, the archdiocese's newspaper, reported.
"Jesus says very clearly that at the end of the world, we're going to be asked, you know, 'How did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not?' And I think that there's a deep reflection that needs to be made in terms of what's happening," Leo added.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/11/05/pope-leo-clergy-access-broadview-ice
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