13 June 2018, The Tablet

View from Rome


 

CARDINAL GIANFRANCO RAVASI issued a pithy response to the announcement by Matteo Salvini that he was blocking Italy’s ports to a migrant boat containing 629 people, including 7 pregnant women and 11 babies. “I was a stranger and you did not welcome me,” the cardinal – a biblical scholar and the Vatican’s culture chief – tweeted, citing Matthew 25:43.

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