Last week, Pope Leo XIV, or American Cardinal Robert Prevost, was chosen to succeed the late Pope Francis.

Before his ascent to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV had been a vocal critic of American President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration.

In an article for The Conversation, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Paris Cité University, Speranta Dumitru, discussed how the defence of migrants has been a key pillar of the papacy since World War 2, and of the Catholic faith for longer.

Wire Host Caeden spoke to Associate Professor Dumitru about what we know about Pope Leo XIV’s views on migration, and how this fits into a broader context of his calls for peace and the mantle he’s taking up from his predecessors.