The letter served as a strong rejection of Trump’s treatment of migrants, with the pope emphasizing that “an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized.”
Francis also appeared to take aim at Vice President JD Vance’s recent use of a medieval Catholic concept to justify and defend the Trump administration’s deportation policy.
In his letter, the pontiff offered a different reading of “ordo amoris” in an apparent correction of Vance’s understanding of theology.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” he wrote. “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”
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