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Title: Media Praises Rich Autocrat Who Refuses to Let More Than Two Refugee Families Into His Country
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Published: Sep 6, 2015
Author: Steve Sailer
Post Date: 2015-09-06 23:01:45 by nativist nationalist
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Pope: Vatican Will Shelter 2 Families Fleeing War, Hunger VATICAN CITY — Sep 6, 2015, 2:30 PM ET By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are “fleeing death” from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced Sunday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across Europe to do the same. Francis cited Mother Teresa, the European-born nun who cared for the poorest in India, in making his appeal in remarks to pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter’s Square. “Faced with the tragedy of tens of thousands of refugees who are fleeing death by war and by hunger, and who are on a path toward a hope for life, the Gospel calls us to be neighbors to the smallest and most abandoned, to give them concrete hope,” Francis said. It’s not enough to say “Have courage, hang in there,” he added. “May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe host a family, starting with my diocese of Rome,” Francis said. He also asked bishops throughout Europe to have their dioceses take up his call to “express the Gospel in concrete terms and take in a family of refugees.” The Vatican is a tiny city-state and some of its citizens, including families with children, live in apartments inside its ancient walls. It has two parish churches, including St. Peter’s Basilica. Francis said two of the Vatican’s parishes will welcome two refugee families, but did not give details. A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, quoted the pope’s chief alms-giver as saying the Vatican is now deciding which families will be hosted. He has chosen mercy as the overarching theme of his papacy. Practicing what he preaches, he has already made free showers at the Vatican available to Rome’s homeless and has barbers available for haircuts for the needy, among other initiatives. Thousands of migrants and refugees, many fleeing war and persecution, have streamed into Germany and Austria over the weekend after being stuck in Hungary for days. Italy has nearly 120,000 people who were brought to its shores after rescue at sea and who are hoping for asylum in Europe. An Italian cardinal calculated that the parishes in the predominantly Roman Catholic country could practically host them all. With more than 27,000 parishes, if each parish hosted a family of four, more than 108,000 people would have shelter. But not in the Pope’s own separate country, which has way too many Nice Things to let a mob of Muslims youths hang out there. 
“Let a Muslim mob Occupy Vatican City? Are you loco? I’ve got too many Nice Things. You people deal with them in your own tacky parishes!” 
“Sorry, not much room at the Vatican inn,” says Pope Francis
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