The Pope's first Bishop:

[applegrove]

The Pope’s first appointed bishop has been assigned to assist in preventing people attending their immigration court appointments from being taken by ICE agents without warrants and due process. How it’s going, in video below in next post/

— LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) 2025-06-21T18:51:55.207Z

[Amaryllis]

1. Thanks, Applegrove. He is on the side of the angels. That is quite a statement.

[Beartracks]

2. Human rights abuses are not something that can only happen "somewhere else."

Thank you, Pope Leo, for beginning to highlight this for the American faithful.

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[BOSSHOG]

3. For Gods Sake

Trump must know the importance of due process. He’s an expert on the subject.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Bishop Michael Pham led a delegation of clergy to a Federal building in downtown San Diego to support immigrants

This Bishop is doing G-d's work

Link to tweet

[Jilly_in_VA]

29. Bishop Michael Pham and the Jesuit Posse

LOVE IT! And I'm not Catholic!

[Irish_Dem]

5. Will the ICE nazis throw a bishop and priests to the floor, handcuff and arrest them?

Physically assault them and rough them up on camera?
Then send them to jail?

The German nazis at least gave Catholic priests and nuns some respect and leeway.

[JT45242]

28. If they'll do it to a senator, a judge, and a house of reps member yes

With every outrageous thing they do with no real consequences the masked Kkklansmen of ice get more emboldened.

Remember white Christian nationalism, the klan, et al hold Catholics only marginally above Jews and blacks.

[Deuxcents]

6. I'm just thinking out loud..this may be a lesson Pope Francis had to learn the hard way during the Dirt War

In Argentina’s state terrorism and he passed the lessons on. 30,000 or so people disappeared, were shot n killed tortured or somehow just disappeared. Pope Francis was a priest during that time and it changed his life forever, he said, when he finally found ways to quietly intervene by giving protection to some people after allegations of complicity with the government. There was a two part documentary when he passed and this was told in his own words about how it happened..how he got Woke!

[brush]

7. I like this Pope. He knows what to do...and doesn't care what TSF thinks.

So Catholics, enlighten me. What's hierarchy under the Pope...Cardinal, Arch Bishop, Bishop...what's next?

[johne8408]

20. Hierarchy

The hierarchy is permanent deacon, transitional deacon, priest, bishop. Permanent deacons are those who assist a parish. Transitional deacons make the “transition” to the priesthood. The Pope can bestow the honorary title of Monsignor upon a priest. Priests become bishops. The bishop of a small diocese (e.g., the Diocese of Wilmington, DE) is simply referred to as Bishop (Name). The bishop of a larger diocese ( e.g., the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, PA) is referred to as an Archbishop (Name). These bishops of dioceses (small or large) could be (are usually) appointed by the Pope as cardinals (still a bishop). One of the eligible cardinals could become Pope (e.g., Pope Leo XIV). The pope is also a bishop: The Bishop of Rome. The XIV after Leo’s name means the there were thirteen popes named Leo before him. Pope Francis did not have a Roman numeral after his name because he was the first pope named Francis. Hope this is as clear as mud!

[brush]

24. Thanks, that clears it up. The title 'bishop' is bestowed quite often.

Has an archbishop ever between chosen as a pope. leap froggng the cardnals?

[Hekate]

25. Information is always helpful

Thanks.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread applegrove

[newdeal2]

9. ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court

ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court

Scattered like the little rats they are.

[dalton99a]

19. +1

[SheltieLover]

10. I hope he expands this initiative!

[Tarzanrock]

11. Excommunication for Malaria for ...

being "married" to Satan's Earthly presence seems highly appropriate.

[fierywoman]

15. I still want to know what Malaria did or what her talent was to deserve an Einstein visa.

[Jilly_in_VA]

30. If I said it in public

I'd get banned here and have to go to confession besides......

[fierywoman]

31. Just as I thought!

[COL Mustard]

33. You know we're all thinking the same thing.

Yuk. I need a shower now.

[paleotn]

12. Seems the ICE nazis in San Diego scattered like they'd been exorcised.

https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06/20/ice-agents-scatter-as-sd-bishop-pham-other-clergy-visit-immigration-court/

"The power of Christ compels you!!!!"

[soldierant]

13. Saw this in HuffPost about a week ago.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-leo-bishop-immigrants-court_n_684c41d0e4b070091d7755c6

No picture with it, and it's not very long, but it does have a little more detail on Bishop Pham's background.

[FakeNoose]

18. The Huffpo story links to an NCR story that gives an amazing background on Michael Pham

https://www.ncronline.org/news/refugee-bishop-san-diego-michael-pham-fled-vietnam-1980-age-13

"From refugee to bishop of San Diego, Michael Pham fled Vietnam in 1980 at age 13"

Michael Pham recalls tear gas in the air when he was a child in South Vietnam. "It was hard to breathe," he said. "It was very difficult."

Born in Da Nang, Pham at age 8 in 1975 fled the North Vietnamese Army with his family, jumping on a rice barge and spending several days at sea with no food or water. As the seasick Pham was leaving the boat, he saw many people on its floor.

"I thought they were sleeping," he told the Southern Cross, "but I came to realize that they were dead."

A half-century later, Pham, a longtime San Diego priest who had been made an auxiliary bishop for the diocese in 2023, was announced as Pope Leo XIV's first appointment of a bishop in the United States. Pham's appointment also makes him the first Vietnamese American to lead a U.S. diocese.

- more at link -

Awesome story!

[Warpy]

14. Looks like a good choice

and a lour warning shot across the bow of the already leaky ship containing the Reagan coalition of Protestants and Catholics who were united because they thought women should be controlled instead of autonomous.

Pope Leo is off to a decent start. At least he's not another dismal conservative.

[Cha]

16. We Thought Pope Leo XIV was going

to be a Force For Good on the World Stage!

Good on Bishop Michael Pham

TY apple,

[FakeNoose]

17. Thank you Pope Leo ... now we know that YOU GET IT!

Best of luck and good wishes to Bishop Michael Pham. We all need to step up our game and Pope Leo is leading the way.

[markie]

21. Pope Leo

that makes me so happy

[Joinfortmill]

22. Love him aleeady

[flashman13]

23. It gives me heart to see how Popes Francis and Leo have used their offices for the betterment

of human kind rather than issuing edicts on how everyone is supposed to conduct their personal lives.

[MuirHero]

26. This is what real leadership with compassion looks like!

[Bluetus]

27. In other words, Pope Leo is telling Catholics,

There are other important issues besides abortion.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

32. Masked ICE agents scattered in the San Diego federal courthouse building when they saw these leaders

Link to tweet