Vatican Slams Inhuman U.S. Southern Border Fence DNyuz
ROME The Vatican newspaper has slammed the U.S. for its southern border fence with a frontpage article decrying that inhuman wire.
The suffering of the migrants who try to get through the barriers placed between Mexico and the United States, reads the caption.
The Vatican, which has encouraged international migration and urged governments to welcome immigrants, has been a vocal critic of the border wall.
In his Message for the 2021 World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis said we are called to work together so that there will be no more walls that separate us, no longer others, but only a single we, encompassing all of humanity.
We must make every effort to break down the walls that separate us and, in acknowledging our profound interconnection, build bridges that foster a culture of encounter, the pope said.
Pope Francis has repeatedly railed against the building of walls. In his 2020 encyclical letter titled Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All), the pontiff referred to walls a striking 14 times, insisting that the Church wants to build bridges, to break down walls, to sow seeds of reconciliation.
Building walls reveals a deep-seated fear of others and of the unknown, the pope wrote, and a desire for security in one s own little world.
There is a kind of local narcissism unrelated to a healthy love of one s own people and culture, Francis said. It is born of a certain insecurity and fear of the other that leads to rejection and the desire to erect walls for self-defense.
Today too, outside the ancient town walls lies the abyss, the territory of the unknown, the wilderness, he stated. Whatever comes from there cannot be trusted, for it is unknown, unfamiliar, not part of the village. It is the territory of the barbarian, from whom we must defend ourselves at all costs.
The massive, 40-foot-high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by an earlier pope, Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter s Basilica in 846 AD.
via dnyuz.com
Spoken truly as the nattily-dressed dude in the walled, private and well-guarded enclave, talking down to those who have to live with the consequences of “no borders”. Please note, these opinions of the Papa are just that — opinions, and not especially well-formed ones at that. Infallibility is reserved for doctrinal announcements and the like, and that doctrine dates itself from the great religious contentions of the 19th century, which featured the interventions of Lord Acton, notably.
https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/acton-s-ideas-as-revealed-by-his-correspondence