Pope Francis Skews Scripture and History to Attack Trump’s Deportations of Illegal Aliens, by Jules Gomes

Pope Francis is equating the unique salvific events of the Exodus and the incarnation to the “phenomenon of migration” in his most fierce attack thus far on the Trump administration’s deportation of illegal aliens.

The pontiff, who toughened penalties for illegal entrants into the Vatican in December, released a strongly worded letter to the U.S. bishops on Tuesday, urging Catholics “not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering” to migrants.

Francis’s missive — a highly unconventional intrusion by a pope into U.S. politics — flays Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent articulation of the concept of ordo amoris (order of love) by misinterpreting Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke’s gospel.

“The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan’ (cf. Lk 10:25-37), that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception,” Francis argues. “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.” …

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