Pope Leo XIV issued an appeal to American immigration authorities on Tuesday after migrants held at an Illinois facility were blocked from receiving communion.

The Chicago-born pontiff urged respect for migrants’ spiritual rights after ICE agents at the Broadview, Illinois, field office refused to allow priests and laypeople to enter and provide communion inside the facility during a Catholic mass organized by the nonprofit Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership on Sunday.

“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what’s going on right now,” the Pope told reporters. “The spiritual rights of people who have been detained should also be considered, and I would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral worke

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