{"id":1440462,"date":"2022-04-15T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440462"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:16:16","slug":"pope-francis-we-are-racists-we-are-usually-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-we-are-racists-we-are-usually-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u2018We Are Racists, We Are usually Racists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-we-are-racists-we-are-usually-racists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440462&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/aptopix-vatican-pope-pope-francis-hoists-gospel-book-chrism-mass-st-peter-basilica-at-vatican-1-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME, Italy \u2014 Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are \u201csubdivided\u201d by skin color and country of origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRefugees are subdivided,\u201d the pontiff declared during a lengthy Good Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2022\/april\/documents\/20220415-a-sua-immagine-venerdisanto.html\">interview<\/a> on Italian television. \u201cThere\u2019s first class, second class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are racists, we are racists. And this is bad,\u201d the pope stated.<\/p>\n<p>As he has done on other occasions, Francis compared the current problem of migrants and refugees to the flight into Egypt of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus when King Herod was seeking to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem of the refugees is a problem that Jesus suffered too, because he was a migrant and a refugee in Egypt when he was a child, to escape death,\u201d he said. \u201cHow many of them are suffering to escape death!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The pope went on to praise a painting of the flight into Egypt by an Italian artist who portrayed Saint Joseph as a clean-shaven, modern-day Syrian fleeing the war with his child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn anguished face that these people have, just like Jesus, forced to flee,\u201d Francis said. \u201cHe sent it to me and I made holy cards from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, Pope Francis will preside over the Stations of the Cross in Rome\u2019s Colosseum. For the fourteenth and final station, the Vatican invited a family of migrants to write and present a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/news_services\/liturgy\/2022\/documents\/ns_lit_doc_20220415_via-crucis-meditazioni_en.html\">reflection<\/a> for the placing of Christ\u2019s lifeless body in the tomb after his crucifixion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we are here. We have died to our past. We wanted to live in our own land but war prevented that,\u201d the text reads. \u201cIt is difficult for a family to have to choose between its dreams and its freedom, between its hopes and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here after travels in which we witnessed the death of women and children, friends, brothers and sisters. We are here, the survivors. We are perceived as a burden,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt home, we were important, but here we are numbers, categories and statistics,\u201d it declares. \u201cAnd yet we are much more than just migrants. We are persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Italy \u2014 Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are \u201csubdivided\u201d by skin color and country of origin. \u201cRefugees are subdivided,\u201d the pontiff declared during a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}