Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve
Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve
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By DANIEL J. WAKIN and JULIA PRESTON
Even as he was flying to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of protecting immigrant families, not dividing them.
He raised the issue again in a meeting on Wednesday with President Bush, and later that day spoke in Spanish to the church’s “many immigrant children.â€
Re: Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve
[quote]Mr. Tancredo said Benedict’s comments welcoming immigrants “may have less to do with spreading the Gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the Church.â€