Pope Francis denounces exclusion of migrants as 'sinful', 'criminal'

Pope Francis says it's 'sinful' and 'criminal' how migrants are excluded from society.
He made those comments as he canonised a 19th-Century bishop who worked to help migrants.
The Pope's remarks come as Italy prepares for a new right-wing coalition government that's promised to crack down on so-called illegal immigrants.
Al Jazeera’s Nadim Baba reports.
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[@joshuamacdonald4064]

Send illegal immigrants to the Vatican City, "when you honour anyone of these least, you honour ME".

[@musicstaroffl]

😂

[@jiffychackochacko3070]

Church provides everything to migranta

[@oofballz4328]

Texas, Florida, and Arizona should start flying illlegal immigrants to Vatican City, they’re probably gonna be safer there than in nyc or Chicago

[@stevearkie5722]

Can you please leave Chicago out of this it’s been really bad I’m not for illegals mercy as they say in the south .

[@benmugase]

When pope got WOKE

[@donbabilio8298]

he's a woke communist not a Pope

[@mmalam8148]

@@donbabilio8298 how communist

[@TomBrown-cq4vu]

@@mmalam8148 Get a hearing check..when you can hear, listen to the Dope.

[@fangugel3812]

How many migrants is Vatican City taking?

[@Aaqe]

How many are YOU taking in to your house?

[@-_-THINK-_-]

@@Aaqe how many will the pope house with his billions of dollars?

[@Aaqe]

@@-_-THINK-_- How many do YOU host in your house you hypocrite?

[@-_-THINK-_-]

@@Aaqe lol the anger is strong in you friend relax I am not your enemy

[@-_-THINK-_-]

@@Aaqe I do not have billions of dollars to share like the pope has

[@franciscody9622]

Vatican needs to "walk its talk".

[@Cotif11]

ah yes, the city-state with less than a fifth of a square mile in territory, no money to spare, and billions of followers. Do you think their property or their voice is the most powerful?

[@-_-THINK-_-]

@@Cotif11 what's the Vatican's networth?

[@-_-THINK-_-]

@@Cotif11 30billion if you didn't know

[@ricfermi5886]

Vatican should be dissolved.

[@lovepeace9902]

@@-_-THINK-_- They can fill their own houses and build houses to the unwanted migrant men, criminals and pedophile priests the pope has protected and who have no right for asylum in other countries. They can take care of them and their offspring for free and they can also use their money to help poor in Africa, Syria, Afghanistan etc. and spread Christianity while doing that. The Pope isn't living by the Bible and he isn't doing the things he demands others to do. He only wants others to sacrifice their money and country by taking criminals without helping them himself even the Vatican takes so much money from millions of rich and poor people who are told that all the donated money will be used for helping others.

[@musicstaroffl]

Let them stay in Vatican City along with the Pope.

[@pigpen2891]

A sovereign nation cannot allow third-world kleptocrats, drug lords, witch doctors, and abusive husbands to dictate their immigration policy. The migrants are mainly fleeing situations which are the responsibility of their own law enforcement officials and social workers to resolve. Unlimited unselective immigration is unsustainable. As we have seen, the patience of the receiving countries' citizens is limited. If I want to see Moroccans, I'll visit Morocco and not Sweden.

[@ricfermi5886]

Of course.

[@theburgerexperience]

A pig indeed 😂

[@andrewgall7238]

how do sovereign countries be sovereign then?

[@pythondre]

We need to talk the economic injustices of the host country having to pay for the needs of others they need not ask for.

[@texastank9413]

Then perhaps he should let them all live at the Vatican.

[@brojwz2314]

No he should just resign

[@samuelbcn]

He has actually got some refugee families living there.

[@Aaqe]

Where in the Vatican? On your head?

[@Aaqe]

@@mrwinston_thepug Only your children are not safe around priests. I wonder why.

[@horaciocastillo1435]

The Vatican is an independant state, you should welcome them, supply housing,food, medical and hospital services and other necesities at your expense.

[@ricfermi5886]

Vatican is through. Just a matter of time to its demise.

[@stevearkie5722]

Yes they should ship them straight to Rome with there gangsters on board .

[@1harperaj]

The Pope should practice what he preaches, rather than “dictating” he should show by example, such a hypocrite

[@ricfermi5886]

No longer a hypocrite, he's got no power and Vatican is on the way to extinction.

[@BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Let the Papacy open it's Finances to 3rd party auditors If it wants to be clear with the World..

[@thor831]

He should give them some of the churches land and money 💰

[@paulsto6516]

Plenty of room at the vatican .

[@Aaqe]

@@paulsto6516 Where? Tell us wise one. On your head?

[@paulsto6516]

@@Aaqe You really do need a new line

[@Aaqe]

@@paulsto6516 Yes, to put on your head. "Plenty of room at the vatican." LMAO

[@-_-THINK-_-]

@@Aaqe the pope has billions of dollars if he cared for the poor and homeless instead of just sharing kind words then he can share wealth for food and clothes and buy or make homes for all the ones in need. the bible warns us about just offering kind words instead of actual help if we can.

[@nostro1940]

Says the old man sitting in a golden throne

[@stevearkie5722]

Yeah four fabulous meals a day waiter servants the works easy living I’m in traffic a million illegals around me can barely speak English all asking free housing ,free food, free medical care .

[@dannyfeller7034]

Does that mean that migrants can now go to Vatican City? :)

[@paulsto6516]

@FunnyFlix Oh my! 😂

[@Aaqe]

Stupid question.

[@dannyfeller7034]

@@Aaqe there is no such thing as a stupid question, but there are stupid answers :)

[@Aaqe]

​@@dannyfeller7034 What a stupid statement has come out of your sick skull. Who told you that there are no stupid questions? Nobody of course. It just came out of your sick skull. LOL But there are stupid answers? LMAO Your family must be so proud of you. I pity them.

[@tanchiewleong59]

The Vatican City should be able to open up and accommodate a sizeable number of these migrants coming into Europe.

[@jaypatchy3889]

If refuseing immigrants is a sin then the pope must tell the all the refugee goverment that they are committing a bigger sin.

[@newtagwhodis4535]

“Sin” is a convenient myth. Nothing else. Right and wrong. It is what it is.The pope’s words are not worth more than a royal heir.

[@malcolmknight345]

If sin is only a myth then how do we know wrong from right?

[@newtagwhodis4535]

@@malcolmknight345 not religion

[@malcolmknight345]

@@newtagwhodis4535 then we're because if God doesn't exist and sin doesn't exist then that means murder or rape or lying or stealing could be perfectly ok and without consequence to another person therefore making the law pointless because everyone would be a law unto themselves with no one having a right to guven that persons beliefs.

[@newtagwhodis4535]

@@malcolmknight345 Not true.

[@malcolmknight345]

@@newtagwhodis4535 if sin doesn't exist how do you or anyone in man's history determine what's right and what's wrong?

[@kurtmcdonald03416]

lol then take them all

[@warrencurtis7442]

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's to God the things that are God's.

[@TomBrown-cq4vu]

So refusing to take in criminals is a sin ? Is there a commandment that says " Thou shall open your house to illegals " ?

[@PatHaskell]

Then house them in Vatican City!

[@Aaqe]

Where in the Vatican City? On your head?

[@-_-THINK-_-]

@@Aaqe in rooms and houses of neighbors Or buy houses for them the Vatican has Billions of dollars

[@Aaqe]

@@-_-THINK-_- LOL Why don't you buy houses for them? You know that the Vatican has billions of dollars eh? Ignorants like you are everywhere. The fart solutions that can only come from behind there.

[@patrickobrien8060]

Francis is a fool, at best.

[@lulufulu4867]

The exclusion of women is also criminal.

[@chrisclarke4541]

The main reason why we have this migrant problem is the huge increase in population in dirt poor countries in Africa. Women there have an average number of seven kids with no means of supporting them . The Catholic Church is instrumental in this by banning birth control methods.

[@ricfermi5886]

Unfortunately, the pope has no power just rumblings.

[@stevearkie5722]

We give so much now the world is throwing there problems here sh- on us .

[@A.I.Friends]

I think the pope should donate half of all the gold he has if he is such a saint.

[@Bluebird19741]

Pope Francis instructed Catholic parishes to welcome immigrants I don't know any parishes in the US.That our housing immigrants.

[@stevearkie5722]

We be flipping the bills providing with jobs food ect and keep Americans unemployed that sounds like a great deal ?

[@harryfields8426]

So Pope Francis is OK if they come in his house and live I just wanna get that cleared up

[@erikriza7165]

it is criminal the way he treats priests too.

[@binodon-xx8nj]

I am very surprised by the behavior of the US and the West, how they continue to cooperate in Ukraine for decades, but the West and the US have not shown any response to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

[@mathiuduanggonmei4428]

This issue will be solve during the time of great tribulation by the Antichrist,,,

[@tower222]

Palestine and Israel are so biblical.

[@mathiuduanggonmei4428]

Only saying Pope will not entertained all the migrants,during the Arab uprising in Syria,he didn't entertained too,

[@chrisclarke4541]

If the pope is right then I'm an Eskimo!!!

[@classifiedsincebirth]

hey Pope, let them move into the Vatican! lead by example

[@shiffault]

First time the pope has made sense during his term ❤️❤️❤️

[@g.walter1653]

Sure Muslim!

[@ricfermi5886]

He doesn't have to make sense. Christians don't need any religion to be Christians, much less hierarchy!

[@starmoon4510]

🇫🇷🇪🇺As a Evangelical Christian I have my issues with the Catholic Church but have always loved and respected the Popes this Pope however needs a reality check.Where in the Bible does it say it’s “sinful” to protect your borders,yh helping refugees or people in need is a noble cause and the Christian thing to do but that doesn’t mean allowing mass migration in Europe their are other ways the West can help them through charity like in their own countries it’s clear sadly Pope Francis has a political agenda.✌🏼

[@ricfermi5886]

Vatican is on its way to extinction. So are Christians as we know them.

[@fancyhat6505]

he can house a few in the Vatican then, they have more than enough gold to go around. other that that he can shut up insulting people he will never understand

[@j9670]

I'll criticize the Pope when he's wrong, but this time he's right! ❤️❤️❤️

[@musicstaroffl]

Take them to your house rather.

[@fjm1061]

He’s been wrong from day 1.

[@paulvazzo3723]

*what does this guy knows ....the church should sell their churches and properties and feed the poor....*

[@erikriza7165]

the first guy to say that was Judas Iscariot

[@-_-THINK-_-]

The church has billions of dollars already all they need to do is share and care

[@zeddyteddy3729]

Say no to racism. Say no to islamophobia. Say no to xenophobia. Say no to homophobia. 🤲🏾🏳️‍🌈🙏🏽😊 Pope Francis ❤️❤️

[@chillimilli5116]

Say no to homosapiens.

[@truthseeker6041]

Say no to Christianophobia

[@-_-THINK-_-]

Jesus Christ is at hand woe to those who call evil good

[@ricfermi5886]

Say yes to Atheism!

[@truthseeker6041]

A//ah hu akbar 💣💣💥💥

[@robertskolimowski7049]

Bravo Pope Francis👏👏👏 ✌

[@Aaqe]

Fascisti!

[@marlinmason2269]

Sent Them to The Vatican, Let the Pope pay for them!

[@sjonm]

On the side of real politics ask the Holy father how many of those three Vatican can take in and cater for them until they settle and integrate