Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
OK I kind of see that, that the pope needs to stay out of politics.

except he doesn’t.
It is certainly any religious leader's job to call out atrocities and injustices when they see them. Heck, if every individual has a responsibility to speak out against wrongdoing, a religious leader is failing their duty if they don't. Pope Pius XII was heavily criticized for not speaking out more during the Holocaust. Pope Leo obviously feels that what's going on in Iran is not just. He also sees inhumanity in the ways in which immigrants are being treated in the US. He is calling out the decisions of the administration on these things, as I believe he should.