Pope Francis on Tuesday strongly criticized President Trump’s mass deportation policy and called on Catholic to reject the statement against immigrants in an extraordinary direct attack on the US administration.
In an open letter to the American bishop, Francis said that deportation of people who often come from difficult situations violates the “dignity of many men and women and the whole families”.
The Pope writes that he has followed the “major crisis in the United States with the launch of a massive deportation program,” he added, adding that any policy made with force “began badly. And it will end badly. ”
Francis has long been a lawyer for immigrants, and has condemned his plight of a pillar of his papacy. It has called the issue a “ship of civilization” and has been repeatedly talked about, against which he understands the policies of unwanted and non -Christian migration worldwide.
Pope Francis criticized Mr Trump’s anti -immigration plans when he was a presidential candidate, but the letter was one of the first public and clear criticisms directed by the US president since the election. Experts say the relationship between the Vatican and the US administration is growing in a rage.
“This changes the heat of the dispute.” Masimo Figoli, Professor of theology at Vilanova University.
Experts say that by writing an open letter, the Pope was also addressing members of the new US administration, many of whom are Catholic, and in particular, Vice President JD Venice.
Francis was seen giving Mr. Venus a report, who recently talked about “Ardo Affairs” – a medieval Catholic Religious concept that established a ranking of duties that someone had. The family or the community preferred more immediate responsibilities than remote needs.
The Pope writes that “Christian love is not an extension of interests that increases a bit to other people and groups.” He wrote, “The true Ardo Affairs that is necessary,” he wrote, “he wrote,” is the love that is open to all without discounts. “
Experts said the Pope’s letter was also addressed to some bishops and Catholic, who have taken a welfare stance against President Trump.
“He wants to avoid that the church is divided into a Pope’s church and Trump’s church,” said Alberto Meloni, director of the church’s church in Bolona.
Pope Francis has previously spoken against Mr Trump’s anti -immigration policies.
In 2016, he suggested that Mr Trump, then the presidential candidate, “is not Christians” because his election campaign promises to deport and destroy more immigrants along the Mexico border.
Last year, Pope Francis said that both presidential candidates were “Kamla Harith” against life “to support abortion rights, and that President Trump closed the door to immigrants. He urged voters to choose “less than two evils”.
But during President Trump’s first term, Francis directed public criticism of the construction of the walls, but generally avoided direct attacks on the administration.
This time, Francis has not been ashamed to criticize President Trump’s policies. On the inauguration occasion, at the Italian TV show, he said that Mr Trump’s deportation plans, “If true, will be notorious.”
During President Trump’s first term, “Vatican believed that Trump was a historic mistake that would be corrected.” “Now they know it’s a new era.”
No comment was made immediately by the White House.
In this letter, which was unannounced, Francis urged the Catholic to consider human values, not on human values, rules or regulations, but to run the basic compass as running its actions.
He wrote, “Consider the principles and public policies in the light of this person’s dignity and his basic rights.” “Not the opposite.”
He reminded Catholic that Jesus and his family were Egyptian immigrants, and urged the “all loyal to the Catholic Church”, “do not abandon stories that our immigrants and migrant brothers and sisters. Cause unnecessary misery. “
Other Christian leaders have also criticized President Trump.
Last month, during the opening prayer service in the Washington National Cathedral, Washington’s Epicopal Dysi leader Bishop Marian Edgar Badee asked President Trump to have mercy on him. Non -documentary immigrants, LGBTQ children, and others.
The next day, Mr Trump demanded an apology from his social media platform’s “so -called bishop” and “radical left hardline Trump heater” on social media platforms.
