Imagine living in your own holy fiefdom, with some of the strictest security on earth, and lecturing other nations about how to deal with illegal immigration. That’s Pope Francis for you. There he is in the Apostoplic Palace, sentries at every door, wagging his be-ringed finger at Donald Trump’s America for its ‘mass deportation’ of undocumented aliens. Even for a Pope this is some next-level cant.
You can’t help but marvel at the sheer sanctimony of Francis’s position
The pontiff’s latest bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome came in a letter to America’s Catholic bishops. He said he is watching closely the ‘major crisis’ unfolding in the US, by which he means President Trump’s ‘initiation of a programme of mass deportations’. The mind boggles at the luxuriant unworldliness of the man who thinks the real crisis is not the presence in the US of 12 million undocumented migrants, but the president’s promise to do something about it.
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