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The Pope has King Donald’s number

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.”
This isn’t just an appeal to Catholics. It’s a warning to the entire free world.
Our country isn’t just in a political struggle. 
It’s in a struggle for its very soul. 
It cannot be denied that we are no longer a country that says “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” 
We’re a country that says “You are not welcome here. Leave or be forced out.”
This cannot stand.
Please Forward, Publicize, and take tour heart and soul; As You Will!
Raymond L Payne 
Duluth, Minnesota

Consider the pedestrian

It’s not easy to be a pedestrian lately and I’m not surprised when I hear about people being hit by a car.  The other day I was crossing on a walk signal and was almost hit by two cars turning from different ways.  Others pull up into the crosswalk making people to walk around them sometimes into the street.

There’s also the intersections that you need to push the button to get across the street and in the winter they’re covered by snowbanks and you don’t have much time to get across the street and when cars are turning you have even less time.  Also in the winter a lot of sidewalks are covered with snowbanks or unshoveld.

Of course the DTA doesn’t make it easy anymore since the buses don’t go near several places anymore and people have to try to get across busy intersections to get to several places like the grocery stores like they used to before their so called better bus plan. The same with the post offices especially for senor citizens.

I’m not the only person who feels like this but no one seems to listen.  I wonder how many people will be injured walking by cars.
Cecilia Hill
Duluth, Minnesota