Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country as he visited Italy’s migrant frontline island of Lampedusa.
Leo, who drew the ire of Donald Trump last year after calling the U.S. president’s hardline anti-immigration policies “inhuman”, also urged the world to become “more human” and to help those fleeing
