Pope Francis has joined the growing list of officials ridiculing President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning war refugees from entering the United States.
Usuncut.com, citing the Catholic News Service as its source, reported that the pontiff weighed in on the issue during a pilgrimage of German Catholics and Lutherans. He rejected “the contradiction of those who want to defend Christianity in the West and, on the other hand, are against refugees and other religions.”
Francis explained: “This is not something I’ve read in books, but I see in the newspapers and on television every day. The sickness or, you can say the sin, that Jesus condemns most is hypocrisy, which is precisely what is happening when someone claims to be a Christian but does not live according to the teaching of Christ. You cannot be a Christian without living like a Christian.”
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The pope called on all countries to give “service to the poorest, the sick (and) those who have abandoned their homelands in search of a better future for themselves and their families.” He argued that “in putting ourselves at the service of the neediest, we will experience that we already are united; it is God’s mercy that unites us.”
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Francis declared that “you cannot be a Christian without doing what Jesus teaches us in Matthew 25.” That was a reference to the Parable of the Judgment, which states: “For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, A stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me. I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.”
Source: US Uncut
Photo: YouTube
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