VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defined hostility and rejection of refugees and migrants as sin, encouraging people to overcome their “fully comprehensible” fears that these new arrivals might “disturb the established order” of local communities.
At his invitation, several thousand migrants, refugees and immigrants from 49 countries joined Francis at Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, a day the Catholic Church dedicated to the issues and contributions of those who leave homelands in hope of a better life.
New arrivals must “know and respect the laws, the culture and the traditions of the countries that take them in,” he said. Local communities must “open themselves without prejudices to their rich diversity, to understand the hopes and potential of the newly arrived as well as their fears and vulnerabilities.”
“It is not easy to enter into another culture, to put oneself in the shoes of people so different from us, to understand their thoughts and their experiences,” Francis said.
“As a result, we often refuse to encounter the other and raise barriers to defend ourselves. Local communities are sometimes afraid that the newly arrived with disturb the established order, will ‘steal’ something they have long labored to build up.”
Similarly, he said, newcomers also are afraid: “of confrontation, judgment, discrimination, failure.”
“These fears are legitimate, based on doubts that are fully comprehensible from a human point of view,” Francis continued in his homily.
Old Pope Franky protected a lot of perverts when he was a bishop in Argentina, you can find lots of info on the abuse done by priest ect on BishopAccountability.org
How many migrants and refugees has the pope allowed into the Vatican?
That’s a really good question, but I’m going to say zero…
The cult of Rome has billions in assets, what’s Frank and his organization doing with all that loot? How many refugees have they taken in?
They’ve picked the pockets of millions over the years with their unbiblical practice of selling indulgences. Last I heard they still do it. My poor widowed grandmother scrubbed floors to pay for masses to be said for my deceased uncle, with the promise of limiting his time in their fictional Purgatory.
The world needs no admonitions or advise from you Devil of Rome, away with you!
How many immigrants live in Vatican City?
Ditto for news commentators who live in gated communities and send their own children to private schools.
Well open up the doors of the Vatican Pope Francis you sinner, because you are the biggest obstacle to accepting them in Vatocan citi you sinner you.