Posted on 04/02/2022 7:41:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ROME — Pope Francis called for greater openness to migrants Saturday, appealing for a change of narrative from the primacy of national security to the primacy of welcome.
Addressing civil authorities on the first day of his visit to the island nation of Malta, the pontiff urged his hearers to open their hearts and “rediscover the beauty of serving our neighbors in need.”
“Today, when those who cross the Mediterranean in search of salvation are met with fear and the narrative of ‘invasion’ and safeguarding one’s own security at any price seems to be the primary goal,” Francis said, “let us help one another not to view the migrant as a threat and not to yield to the temptation of raising drawbridges and erecting walls.”
“Other people are not a virus from which we need to be protected, but persons to be accepted,” he asserted, adding that the Christian ideal is “a summons to overcome suspicion, ingrained mistrust, fear of losing our privacy, all those defensive attitudes which today’s world imposes on us.”
In his discourse, the pope compared migrants landing on Malta’s shores to Saint Paul, who was shipwrecked on Malta two millennia ago and “found ready assistance.”
The really important thing, the pope said, was that “Paul was a man, a man in need of assistance. Humanity is first and foremost: that is the lesson taught by this country whose history was blessed by the arrival of the shipwrecked apostle.”
Given the growing influx of migration in recent years, “fear and insecurity have nurtured a certain discouragement and frustration,” Francis said. “If the complexity of the migration issue is to be properly addressed, it needs to be situated within a broader context of time and space.”
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The ImPopester should take them all in, he has lots of room.
I’d agree to the use of taxpayer funds to fly some to the Vatican.
No Frankie, YOU’RE the virus we need protection from.
Fine, Frankie. You put them up in the Vatican. You have more than a trillion bucks to spend on it as it is.
Tear down your own walls or stfu.
How many cis”migrants” are housed within the WALLS of the Vatican?
Lemme know what the clown says when a few million Shiite militias set up camp outside his little redoubt there in Roma
The Poop speaks!
I call him Nope Francis. Nope to tradition. Nope to faith. Nope to horse sense.
Says the guy in a stupid hat living in a walled compound.
Is Pope Marx Gay or Not?
National Inquiring minds want to know.
Of course, because they advance the agenda of the catholic church, being catholic. All that matter is power, control and money, the other people in the nation be damned.
Does the Doxey version have a different account?
RE: Pope Francis: Migrants Are Not ‘a Virus from Which We Need to Be Protected’
So says the man living inside a walled city with armed guards protecting him from migrants, among other things.
More bacterial.
He must be using the “royal we” there.
Seems to me: This Pope’s PR team is absolutely wired into the MSM/progressive pulse/narrative, guiding every utterance that emanates from his evil lips, guaranteed to conform to and support the progressive narrative.
The bible has nothing to do with anything this false Devil does or says.
His sole purpose is to please his masters, to further their plan.
Every country has a sovereign right to determine their own immigration policies and laws.
There are so many homogenous or largely so, countries in this world, these people pay zero attention to and are not condemned at all for it.
Why just white majority western countries?
....as he sits in his palace surrounded by huge walls and guards, living like a billionaire. I am Roman Catholic, and I think Francis is the Worst. Pope. Ever.
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