The battle between Pope Francis and Donald Trump has already begun, as provided in the tycoon, full of crosses of hostile statements (the pontiff). This time starts with a direct clash about immigration. Jorge Mario Bergoglio has published Tuesday “in these delicate moments”, which he dedicates exclusively to talk about this issue: “I have followed the important crisis that is taking place in the United States on the occasion of the beginning of a. The rightly formed consciousness cannot stop making a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that identifies, tacitly or explicitly, the illegal condition of some migrants with crime. ”
The letter, written in English and Spanish, is very severe and with several phrases and forceful expressions. He speaks of “Ignominia walls” and calls the faithful to oppose Trump’s immigration policy, almost described as a moral perversion, precisely when the president of the United States has disclosed this Sunday a photo praying in his office with a group of telepredictors and ultraconservative Christians. The Pope’s attack aims to disavow precisely that confessional and religious halo that exhibits the new US reactionary wave: “I urge all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to the narratives that discriminate and They make our migrant brothers and refugees suffer unnecessarily. ”
After defending the dignity of all people without exception, Francisco adds with a clearly political reading: “to worry about personal, community or national identity, apart from these considerations, it easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes will impose of the strongest as a truth criterion. ” Francisco states that “it cannot be built through the privilege of some and the sacrifice of others.” “What is built based on force, and not from the truth about the same dignity of every human being, badly begins and will end,” he warns.
The White House has not walked around. The Immigration Manager, Tom Homam, of Catholic Faith, has said in a conversation with journalists that the Pope should “concentrate on the Catholic Church” and let the Americans go from their borders. “Do you want to attack us because we protect our borders? The Vatican has a wall around, right? (…) And we cannot have a wall around the United States, ”according to the Italian agency ANSA. Already in 2016, when the Pope criticized the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, Trump replied: “The Pope would like and pray that I was president if the Vatican were attacked by the Islamic State.”
The Pope’s words do nothing but delve into the confrontation he maintains, beyond Trump, with the most ultraconservative sector of the US Catholic Church itself. Already in December, preparing what was coming, the Pontiff appointed as the new Archbishop of Washington DC, very critical of the Republican leader and defender of immigrants. For his part, Trump already advanced that the new ambassador to the headquarters would be Brian Burch, a kind of antipopedeclared enemy of the Argentine pontiff, ultraconservative Catholic, president of the Catholic Vote platform.
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Francisco’s burden is deep, because he describes a scenario where democracy itself is at stake. He ensures that the deportation “hurts the dignity” of people and that is an issue that “is not less.” “A true rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized. The true common good is promoted when society and government, with creativity and strict respect for everyone’s right, accept, protect, promote and integrate the most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable, ”he writes. And in another passage he affirms: “All the faithful Christians and the men of good will, we are called to look at the legitimacy of public norms and policies in the light of the dignity of the person and their fundamental rights, not vice versa.”
There is a paragraph that is written, even if it names it, but the references are evident. Vance, converted to Catholicism in 2019, justified the deportations of migrants two weeks ago in Fox News citing, in its own way, a theological concept of San Agustín, the the order of lovethe order of love, saying that it begins with the family, then the neighbor, the community, the country and, only in the end, the rest of the world. He explained that the moral duties of a person towards his children exceed those of “a stranger who lives thousands of kilometers away” and invited in social networks to seek the order of love A Google.
Now the Pope replicates expressly citing that idea: “The real the order of love That it is necessary to promote is the one we discover constantly meditating in the parable of the good Samaritan, that is, meditating in the love that builds an open fraternity to all, without exception. ” The pontiff’s catechesis -shaped rappe indicates that Christian love “is not a concentric expansion of interests that are gradually extended to other people and groups.” “In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings!” He exclaims.
