Pope praises US history of welcoming immigrants in implicit rebuke to Trump
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Pope Leo has used his first major 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.
In a speech given live from the Vatican to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia as he received the Center’s Liberty Medal, Leo said he hoped that ideals of “unity,
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Pope Leo has used his first major 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 a speech given live from the Vatican to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia as he received the Center’s Liberty Medal, Leo said he hoped that ideals of “unity,
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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.