Pope Names Pro-Immigrant Bishop Where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is Located
Pope Names Pro-Immigrant Bishop Where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is Located
Leo’s latest U.S. bishop appointments give the appearance he is playing politics with President Trump.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, currently pastor of a predominantly Hispanic church in the Queens borough of New York City, as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida.
The diocese is home to the Mar-a-Lago estate of President Donald Trump, whose get-tough immigration policies have drawn objections from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Rodriguez has been a staunch advocate for migrants, which make up most of his 17,000 congregants at the Our Lady of Sorrows church — the largest parish in the Diocese of Brooklyn, which also oversees churches in Queens.
“I never, never, never expected anything even close to this,” Rodriguez told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday from Palm Beach, where he was visiting a homeless shelter.
“I’m even a little bit scared. But I trust in God’s assistance,” he said. “One thing I can tell you is that this …
None of these swisbishops is worth anything. Pay no attention to the lies and garbage they will try to feed you.