The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.

Pope Leo has hit out at President Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal and has warned that the administration risks destroying the longstanding alliance between Europe and the United States.

Pope Leo has been critical of the Trump administration's immigration policy, particularly its treatment of migrants, calling it "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV has chosen Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next Archbishop of New York, a fellow Chicagoan who joined a chorus of Catholic bishops in criticizing the immigration raids by President Donald Trump's administration earlier this year.

Leo XIV warned that Trump's disparaging remarks about Europe and NATO could fracture the longstanding US-Europe alliance that he considers vital "today and in the future."

The American president’s Ukraine strategy is inviting “a huge change in what was for many years a true alliance between the EU and U.S.,” pontiff warns.

The pontiff responded to a controversial element in the Trump administration's new national security strategy.

Multiple news reports indicated that Pope Leo XIV had chosen Bishop Ronald Hicks, 58, of the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois — the pontiff's hometown is on the south side of Chicago — to be the next archbishop of New York.