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Pope Leo: Denying Prisoners Access to Pastoral Care Problematic

King Don has strangely mused about getting into heaven. Maybe Pope Leo can straighten him out on prepping for Judgment Day:

Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that “many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now.”

The Chicago-born pope was responding Tuesday to a range of geopolitical questions from reporters outside the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, including what kind of spiritual rights migrants in U.S. custody should have, U.S. military attacks on suspected drug traffickers off Venezuela and the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East.

Leo underlined that Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: “How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening.”

He said “the spiritual rights of people who have been detained should also be considered,’’ and he called on authorities to allow pastoral workers access to the detained migrants. “Many times they’ve been separated from their families. No one knows what’s happening, but their own spiritual needs should be attended to,” Leo said [“Pope Leo Calls for ‘Deep Reflection’ About Treatment of Detained Migrants in U.S.,” AP, 2025.11.05].

Pope Leo refers to the religious oppression imposed on individuals detained by America’s new brownshirt corps:

Faith leaders denounced Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for rejecting access to give Communion to immigrants being held at an Illinois facility over the weekend.

The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), a Catholic and Christian-rooted nonprofit, organized a Mass by the immigration processing center on All Saints Day and Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead.

…[CSPL exec Michael] Okińczyc-Cruz said that CSPL formally submitted a letter requesting access more than a week in advance and took numerous steps for ministers to give Communion to migrants in the Broadview facility. This is the second time they were denied entry since their first attempt on Oct. 11, he told ABC News.

…Katrina Thompson, the mayor of Broadview, also submitted a letter on their behalf to DHS and ICE requesting permission on Oct. 22. It went unanswered, according to Okińczyc-Cruz [Gaby Vinick, “Faith Leaders Blocked by ICE from Delivering Communion to Immigrants Speak Out,” ABC News, 2025.11.03].

Funny that the very pious Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem would deny individuals in her care the body of Christ. She happily uses the Word of God to recruit new goons; why would she not let those captured by her goons hear that Word as well?

According to the precepts of their own professed faith, Kristi and King Don are both going to face some rough judgment if they keep up their theocratic hypocrisy.

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  1. Born in Omaha, Blase Cupich was raised in a catholic household, attended a Benedictine elementary school, a diocese high school then graduated the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. When this interested party lived in Rapid City in 1998 he was made bishop by John Paul II and was consecrated in a ceremony at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. In 2004 when some in the cult wanted to ban Senator Tom Daschle from the Eucharist because of his defense of reproductive rights Cupich called it “cherry picking” and in 2008 he called racism a sin and was named Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2016. Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago is pushing back on plans by the Trump Organization to raid churches and schools in Pope Leo’s home town.

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