His comments recognized both the Catholic Church’s universalist and idealist perspective and the practical management problem facing elected secular governments:
Both the first [Old Testament] reading and the [New Testament] Gospel make very clear a message which Pope Francis has been hammering home time and again since his very first trip as Pope, when he went to this little community, an [Mediterranean] island town of Lampedusa, where all these immigrants continue to come.
It’s a huge problem, and it’s a problem worldwide, not only in this country. There’s got to be a way both to solve the problem, but also treat people with respect.
Every one of us, whether we were born in the United States of America or on the North Pole, we all are given a gift of being created in the image and likeness of God, and the day we forget that is the day we forget who we are. We forget who Christ has called us to be.
These two-sided comments are far more nuanced than the prior Pope’s
loud support for mass migration into Europe’s increasingly chaotic and violent societies.
For example, the recently deceased Pope Francis declared that building barriers to migration is “not Christian.” He told a group of mostly Muslim migrants they were “warriors of hope,” and declared that “we are all required to welcome, promote, accompany, and integrate those who knock on our doors.”
Thousands of African and Arab migrants
have died while trying to reach the European welcome offered by Pope Francis — and thousands of the migrants have committed crimes against Europeans after they landed.
Despite the distance between Francis and Leo, pro-migration groups are
portraying the new pope as a political ally on the issue, even though there is scant evidence he views his Catholic call for “respect” as a political call for more migration, with all of the resulting chaos, poverty, and deaths.
The Catholic Church's new Pope has publicly described migration as a "huge problem" even as he urges Christians to respect migrants.
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