What a hypocrite!
Posted on 01/20/2025 8:37:03 AM PST by ebb tide
Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace.”
The pontiff, speaking during an Italian television interview, was asked about the incoming Trump administration’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants through an aggressive slate of immigration executive orders by the incoming president, who will be inaugurated Monday.
“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things,” Francis said during the Sunday interview.
The Pope has made advocacy for migrants a key part of his papacy, insisting they should be welcomed and integrated into societies.
It’s also a topic which resonates personally with Francis. In his new autobiography, the Pope recalled how his paternal grandparents and father had planned to sail in 1927 on the Principessa Mafalda from Italy to Argentina, which sank with the loss of many lives, but ended up making a later crossing.
Francis has signaled that he is ready to take a critical approach to the new Trump administration with his appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy as the next Archbishop of Washington, DC.
McElroy has described mass deportations of immigrants as “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”
On Sunday, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, also criticized the deportation plans. In 2016, Francis suggested then-presidential candidate Trump was “not Christian” for his anti-immigration views.
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In a decree issued last month by the Holy See, the monetary sanctions and prison sentences for those who violate the strict security regulations of Vatican City have been considerably increased.
The document, signed by Cardinal Fernando Vérguez Alzaga, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, provides for monetary fines ranging from 10,000 to 25,000 euros (about $10,200 to $25,700) and prison sentences ranging from one to four years.
The Pope can invite them to live with him then.
I hear he has lots of room at the Holy See
How ‘bout we send the reporters to the Vatican? Let’s see how big the Popester’s heart and wallet are.
Ping
What a hypocrite!
The word was DEPORTEES, not reporters
I have no idea what he just said. Someone needs to give this dope an Alzheimer's test.
The wrong side winning WWII was a disgrace.
Marxist.
This pope is a disgrace.
What’s wrong Popey?
Does this take away the electoral power of the party that is implementing your preferred policies?
Some Argentinian in a dress and a big hat has thoughts. Who cares?
I know very little about catholicism, but what I see gives me pause.......what I do know is there are many many members of my nondenominational Christian church that used to be catholic.
This pope is a disgrace.
Then he should stop being a hypocrite and tear down the Vatican wall...............
A heretic and a schismatic. As a practicing Catholic I say: Shut up, Frank. Nobody cares what you think
The Gates of Hell has prevailed against this man made denomination.
We should drop illegal aliens by parachute inside the Vatican Wall.
After a few hundred thousand the Pope might see the Light.
they are ILLEGAL ALIENS... not ‘immigrants’
#F Pope Dipshit the 1st
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