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Trump will be out of place at Pope Francis's funeral -- Jennifer Rubin
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-will-be-out-of-place-at-popeBe a Francis, not a Trump
Donald Trump, who never likes to miss a chance to show off his mug at an international event, announced he is going to Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday. It’s an odd choice for a president whose policies Pope Francis abhorred and routinely denounced. In particular, Trump’s assault on anti-climate change measures, immigrants, and freedom of conscious were the antithesis of this pope’s world view.
“In 2015, [Pope Francis] penned the first-ever papal encyclical focused solely on the environment,” the New York Times reported. This “sprawling call to action… recognized climate change as both a social and environmental crisis, and emphasized that its greatest consequences were shouldered by the poor.” At the signing of the Paris Agreement that year, “at least 10 world leaders made specific reference to the pope’s words during their addresses to the United Nations climate conference.”
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Trump’s assault on immigrants’ rights likewise highlights the moral gap between the most xenophobic modern president and the pope most attuned to the plight of migrants. The Pope’s death came in the midst of the most egregiously unconstitutional and cruel anti-immigrant dragnet launched by a U.S. president. He and his toadies have consigned legal U.S. residents to a hellhole gulag in El Salvador, smeared a Maryland father as an MS-13 gang member, and rousted students off the streets without warning, under the flimsy guise of fighting antisemitism.
In stark contrast, the Pope repeatedly and sharply condemned mistreatment of immigrants. His death continues to be widely mourned among immigrant rights organizations (e.g., “The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expresses its profound sorrow at the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, whose pontificate was marked by unwavering moral leadership in defense of human dignity and the rights of migrants and the most vulnerable”).
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“In 2015, [Pope Francis] penned the first-ever papal encyclical focused solely on the environment,” the New York Times reported. This “sprawling call to action… recognized climate change as both a social and environmental crisis, and emphasized that its greatest consequences were shouldered by the poor.” At the signing of the Paris Agreement that year, “at least 10 world leaders made specific reference to the pope’s words during their addresses to the United Nations climate conference.”
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Trump’s assault on immigrants’ rights likewise highlights the moral gap between the most xenophobic modern president and the pope most attuned to the plight of migrants. The Pope’s death came in the midst of the most egregiously unconstitutional and cruel anti-immigrant dragnet launched by a U.S. president. He and his toadies have consigned legal U.S. residents to a hellhole gulag in El Salvador, smeared a Maryland father as an MS-13 gang member, and rousted students off the streets without warning, under the flimsy guise of fighting antisemitism.
In stark contrast, the Pope repeatedly and sharply condemned mistreatment of immigrants. His death continues to be widely mourned among immigrant rights organizations (e.g., “The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expresses its profound sorrow at the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, whose pontificate was marked by unwavering moral leadership in defense of human dignity and the rights of migrants and the most vulnerable”).
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