Pope Francis in a recent letter to US bishops says “the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation,

Supporters of President Donald Trump have attacked Pope Francis after the pontiff spoke against the Republican's mass deportation plans. Newsweek has contacted the Vatican for comment via email. The fallout highlights a potential growing ideological divide between conservative Catholicism and Trump's MAGA base.

Pope Francis on Tuesday reprimanded Donald Trump for starting to carry out mass deportation plans, warning the treatment of migrants "will end badly."

Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to U.S. bishops in which he appeared to take direct aim at Vice President JD Vance’s defense of the deportation program on theological grounds.

Pope Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to the bishops of the United States.

Pope Francis issued a major rebuke of the Trump administration’s plans for the mass deportations, taking particular aim at comments made by Vice President JD Vance.

Pope Francis rejected the vice president's interpretation of the Catholic concept of “ordo amoris,” as the pontiff blasted Trump's immigration crackdown.

In an extraordinary intervention, Pope Francis also took aim at Vice President JD Vance's theological justification for the deportation program.

Pope Francis, 88, was challenged by President Donald Trump’s “border czar” on Tuesday after the pontiff criticized Trump’s plan to carry out mass deportations of undocumented migrants. “Czar” Tom Homan,