Vatican Worried About Trump Immigration Order
Source: Reuters
February 2, 2017 10:23 am
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) The Vatican said on Wednesday it was worried about U.S. President Donald Trumps moves on immigration, in the Holy Sees first comment since his executive order banning travel into the United States by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries.
Certainly there is worry because we are messengers of another culture, that of openness, the Vaticans deputy secretary of state, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, told an Italian Catholic television station in answer to a question about Trumps order. Becciu, who ranks third in the Vatican hierarchy, was asked about the executive order as well as Trumps promise to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
Pope Francis, in fact, insists on the ability to integrate those who arrive in our societies and cultures, he told TV2000.
Some Roman Catholic leaders in the United States have criticized Trumps executive order. Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago said on Sunday it was a dark moment in U.S. history and that it was contrary to both Catholic and American values
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ananda
(28,837 posts)Openness and inclusion!
brooklynite
(94,363 posts)Win some, lose some.
47of74
(18,470 posts)At least as long as this order is in, if not longer.