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''Pope Francis Calls Out Trump, Accuses Him of “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy''

 

vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/pope-francis-trump-daca

By Tina NguyenSeptember 11, 2017

 

While conservatives like Paul Ryan have expressed reservations about Pope Francis, the Vatican’s ambiguously progressive social-justice warrior in chief, their differences of opinion pale in comparison to the Pope’s clashes with Donald Trump.

The feuding began in earnest in 2016, when Francis criticized Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric as “not Christian,” an insult that Trump returned tenfold, accusing the pope of being a “pawn” of the Mexican government and warning that the Vatican would be “attacked by ISIS” if he were not president. After the election, the two heads of state settled for a sort of détente: Francis welcomed the president and his family to the Vatican earlier this year for an awkward photo op and a brief meeting on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace, during which the pope slipped Trump two somewhat backhanded gifts: a signed copy of his 2017 peace message (“Nonviolence—A Style of Politics for Peace”) and a copy of his 2015 encyclical letter on climate change. “Well, I’ll be reading them,” said Trump, who almost certainly didn’t.

 

Unfortunately, the peace between the two doesn’t appear destined to last. On Monday, Francis criticized Trump again, this time for his decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), the Obama-era policy granting temporary protections to undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. “The president of the United States presents himself as pro-life and if he is a good pro-lifer, he understands that family is the cradle of life and its unity must be protected,” Francis told reporters on his plane, as he returned from a five-day trip to Colombia. Claiming to stand for life, and then pursuing policies that hurt immigrants and tear apart families, he implied, would be deeply hypocritical.

 

The pontiff admitted that he was unclear on the legal specifics of DACA, but called on the president to “make changes” to protect the vulnerable. “I think this law comes not from parliament but from the executive,” he said, apparently siding with Barack Obama’s interpretation of his presidential authority. A number of Republican state attorneys general disagreed, however, which was ostensibly part of the reason Trump announced that he would be ending the program, raising pressure on Congress to codify DACA through legislative means instead.

 

Francis also took a shot at lawmakers like Trump who deny the seriousness of climate change or refuse to do anything about it. “If we don’t go back, we will go down,” the Pope said, CNN reports, as his papal plane crossed Hurricane Irma’s path en route from Cartagena back to Rome. “Man is a stupid and hard-headed being,” he added.