Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked.

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Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says.

This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops.

Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and one unmistakable command:

“You must speak. You must not remain silent.”

According to Vatican officials and border clergy, Leo told the bishops to publicly confront Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, calling it “inhuman” and “morally indefensible.”

This is the first time the new pope has explicitly addressed Trump’s second-term raids — and he didn’t hold back.

“Where the world sees threats,” Leo said, “the Church sees children. Where walls are built, she builds bridges.”

That line, delivered to stunned bishops, echoes through his new 104-page exhortation Dilexi te (“I Have Loved You”), a sweeping document about dignity, inequality, and the moral cost of indifference.

Leo’s warning is clear: A society that treats compassion as weakness is already in decay.

He called the growing cruelty toward migrants “a test of our humanity,” adding that a nation that forgets mercy “falls into a cesspool.”

The message is not subtle.

It’s a direct challenge to Trump’s so called “Christian nationalism” a movement that claims to defend life while supporting family separations, mass deportations, and detention camps.

“Someone who says they are against abortion but supports the inhuman treatment of immigrants,” Leo said, “is not really pro-life.”
That single line has conservative Catholics scrambling and MAGA media fuming. But

Leo isn’t here to please politicians, he’s here to call their bluff.
His tone is fatherly but firm.

Where Trump demands obedience, Leo calls for conscience.

Where Trump trades empathy for applause, Leo reminds the Church that silence is complicity.

This bears repeating: “Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity,” he writes, “or we fall into a cesspool.”
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