Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s plan to deport immigrants as a \u201cdisgrace.\u201d <\/p>\n
The pontiff, speaking during an Italian television interview, was asked about the incoming Trump administration\u2019s plans to expel undocumented immigrants through an aggressive slate of immigration executive orders by the incoming president, who will be inaugurated Monday. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won\u2019t do. This is not the way to solve things,\u201d Francis said during the Sunday interview. <\/p>\n
The Pope has made advocacy for migrants a key part of his papacy, insisting they should be welcomed and integrated into societies. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s also a topic which resonates personally with Francis. In his new autobiography, the Pope recalled how his paternal grandparents and father had planned to sail in 1927 on the Principessa Mafalda from Italy to Argentina, which sank with the loss of many lives, but ended up making a later crossing. <\/p>\n
Francis has signaled that he is ready to take a critical approach to the new Trump administration with his appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy as the next Archbishop of Washington, DC. <\/p>\n
McElroy has described mass deportations of immigrants as \u201cincompatible with Catholic doctrine.\u201d <\/p>\n
On Sunday, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, also criticized the deportation plans. In 2016, Francis suggested then-presidential candidate Trump was \u201cnot Christian\u201d for his anti-immigration views. <\/p>\n
During the interview, the Pope also said he was appointing a nun, Sister Raffaella Petrini, as president of the commission which governs the Vatican City State. <\/p>\n
Petrini will take over from a cardinal in her new role and is expected to take up her position in March. He appointment follows the Pope\u2019s decision earlier this month to appoint the first female leader of a Vatican department. <\/p>\n
The Pope also said that his arm, which had been in a sling after he injured it in a fall, is now \u201cmoving better.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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