MARCH 2023: Why Does Francis Focus on Migration?
Anytime I quote Ivereigh and/or Francis, I place the exact language in quotes, When I am summarizing either of them it is in regular type. When I am interpreting, commenting or questioning it is in italics. Why Does Francis Focus on Migration? “Never has a pope focused so consistently on a social issue as has Francis on migration these past ten years. What St. John Paul II did for the unborn and the ethic of life, Francis has done for migrants and the ethic of fraternity.” Why? “just as communism was personal for Karol Wojtyła, so is migration for Jorge Mario Bergoglio. As the child of Italian émigrés who remade their lives in Buenos Aires in the 1930s, he knows firsthand about the vulnerability of those who have been uprooted.” Another reasons “ is the scale and urgency of the matter. There have never been as many people on the move as there are today: the UN’s pre-pandemic estimate was an astonishing 70 million. If they were a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world, afte