Pope praises US history of welcoming migrants in implicit rebuke to Trump

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Pope Leo urges Americans to live up to ideals of Declaration of Independence in first key address to US Pope Leo has used his first key address to his home country to praise the US history of ⁠welcoming migrants, urging Americans to live up to the ideals put forward in the ⁠Declaration of Independence. In his latest implicit rebuke to Donald Trump, the first US leader of the Roman Catholic church said the word “America” had become ‌a “byword for freedom” across the world because of the way the country welcomed migrants. Continue reading...