Posted on 02/09/2016 6:26:02 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Pope Francis Will Stand With Migrants at U.S. Border Dudley Althaus And José de Córdoba Feb. 9, 2016 8:53 p.m. ET
MEXICO CITY—Pope Francis arrives in Mexico on Friday for a six-day visit that will end with a highly symbolic and potentially controversial act: the pontiff taking a stand on the fortified U.S. border to show solidarity with the migrants trying to cross it.
The pope’s gesture comes at the height of a rancorous U.S. political season in which immigration has become a hot-button issue.
Two leading candidates for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, have vowed to build a wall along the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border. Mr. Trump has said he would forcibly deport up to 11 million illegal migrants from the U.S.
The pope will hold a cross-border Mass in Ciudad Juárez on Feb. 17 just 90 yards from the U.S. frontier. Some 200,000 people are expected to attend on the Mexican side and an additional 50,000 across the Rio Grande in Texas.
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They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
I guess he loves living too much to stand at the border with the invaders and look back towards the Mexican government. The boy would wear out his sandals haulin’ ass from the Federales. Can’t blame him I guess.
He is trashing our constitution and our territorial sovereignty. What a jerk. Take ‘em all to the vatican when you leave.
Common sense is no where to be found
Kick his ass into Mexico.
He will be on the Mexican side of the border.
Let’s all go and rush the wall of the Vatican and demand free stuff
I prefer the 150,000 Polish Catholics who recently marched and had a mass and sang and prayed for their country not to be over run by Islamic terrorists..
where is the pope on that ???
Will he censor the wonderful priest who led the prayers ???
This guy is standing for breakers of American law....just like Obama and his ilk. A “Democrat” Pope.
This guy is standing for breakers of American law....just like Obama and his ilk. A “Democrat” Pope.
Unreal. This heretic pope is promoting illegal activities.
It make you wonder how much money (silver pieces) the Catholic church is taking from Uncle Sam (taxpayers) to provide lodging for all these illegals.
We can only hope he gets arrested...
Would he just blow up and die, please? They’re leaving Mexico because it’s a dysfunctional secularist socialist state, which is exactly what he wants to install everywhere.
Ok, KEEP his ass there.
He wants to take the land back for the Church and he doesn’t want us evil Protestants standing in the way.
It’s just too galling that we built a better country then the cesspools dominated by his guys.
So he’s got his eyes on the Prize: reverse the 500 year old humiliation and reconquer El Norte for the Spanish Crown and the Vatican. Repudiate Martin Luther, John Calvin and the Anglican church.
Doesn’t matter that it will be a land of poverty and desperation. What’s important to him is...he will control it.
So for El Papa, we have a question....
Do ya feel lucky, punk?
Must be hard for Catholics to like this pope
My thought too......why doesn’t the Vatican take in refugees or illegal immigrants. Or,give the Mexican govt money to take care of their people......sure....it won’t go to drug cartels. Rather than injecting himself into our politics, perhaps the Pope should fight for the Christians being slaughtered in the Middle East.
Fortified U.S.border? The author must make reference to its nutritive content.
may his plane go down
with him in it
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