Pope Talks Climate Change, Immigration

“In recent centuries”, the Pope said, “millions of people came to this land to pursue their dream of building a future in freedom”.

Francis, born to an Italian immigrant family in Argentina, delivered a wide-ranging speech that addressed issues dear to liberals in the United States but also emphasized conservative values and Catholic teachings on the family. Mark my words.” Trump adds time after time, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.

It’s daily work. After Pope Francis returns to the Vatican, they should get to it.

Francis’s most forceful plea, perhaps, was that lawmakers and Americans remember that “most of us once were foreigners”, and that those who cross our borders need our compassion.

A tourist told PJ Media that coming to D.C. was a “calling from God”.

While the pope did speak about terrorism briefly, Donovan said his speech to Congress wasn’t the forum to expect him to go into detail.

The pope also called for protection of life at every stage of development, including an end to the death penalty.

A paragraph in the prepared text quotes briefly from the Declaration of Independence – the passage on self-evident truths – and then says, “If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it can not be a slave to the economy and finance”.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said Thursday that Pope Francis is addressing climate change so that the Catholic doctrine reaches new ears.

“On this continent too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones. And, yes, they’re an astronomical number and we have to figure out a way to deal with them”, he said. Simply put, caring for our planet and for the neediest among us is a responsibility we all share.

In a year of political divisiveness, Pope Francis emerged as a global political leader rather a moral and spiritual voice alone.

On immigration he said never to turn their back on neighbors, he said he spoke as a son of immigrants and called to form the new generations on an education inspired in that principle.

“I am convinced that we can make a difference and I have no doubt that the United States – and this Congress – have an important role to play”, he said. “I am deeply grateful for your welcome in the name of all Americans”.