Pope Francis: Exploitation of migrants for profit ‘makes one cry’

June 21st, 2015

David Schulberg

Pope Francis leads a mass during a two-day pastoral visit in Turin, Italy, June 21, 2015. (Reuters / Giorgio Perottino)

The mistreatment of refugee seekers who are escaping the atrocities of their home countries, ”makes one cry” as they are merely the “victims of injustice, of this throw-away economy” and war, Pope Francis said.

“Immigration
increases competition [for jobs] but migrants should not be
blamed because they are the victims of injustice, of this
throw-away economy, of wars,” the pontiff said at a mass in
Italian city of Turin in front of 60,000 people.

“It makes one cry to see the spectacle of these days in which
human beings have been treated like merchandise.”

He called people to think of their own poor, elderly people and
jobless and not to turn backs on them.

“We are called to say ‘no’ to the idolatry of money,”
which makes people greedy for riches, “without caring for the
many getting poorer, sometimes to the point of hunger.”

Apart from “idolatry of money”, the pontiff urged people
to say no to the “throwaway” economy, corruption, and
“inequity that causes violence.”

Francis at the #Angelus:
“The #Shroud is an
icon of love” #PapaTO http://t.co/ZH1UtrFhpL pic.twitter.com/eEwneAxzLA

— VaticanInsider (@VaticanInsider) June
21, 2015

“Work is fundamental … and it is necessary that the whole
society, all its components, collaborate so that there may be
work worthy of men and women for all…This requires an economic
model that is not organized for the purpose of capital and of
production but rather for the common good.”

Pope Francis stopped near the Shroud of Turin; an icon some
believe is a burial cloth of Jesus Christ which covered his body
after crucifixion. The position of the Catholic Church towards
the 4.3-meter cloth is yet not clear.

#papafrancesco #benvenuTOfrancesco #papaTO #pontifexTorino #francesco #papa #torino #movida #turinforyoung2015 pic.twitter.com/5BDQcON9TU

— FedericaScanderebech (@FScanderebech) June
21, 2015

“The icon of this love is the Shroud, that, even this time,
has attracted so many people here to Turin,” the Pope said.
“The Shroud draws [people] to the tormented face and body of
Jesus and, at the same time, directs [people] toward the face of
every suffering and unjustly persecuted person.”

The 78-year-old Catholic leader then said that the icon should
encourage the believers to reflect not only on Jesus but also on
“the face of every suffering and unjustly persecuted
person.”

#torino oggi
con Papa Francesco @CRUDODICUNEODOP @lucianatombolin @NicoleCavazzuti @turinepi pic.twitter.com/z3VDuUeHP8

— Nicole Cappa (@NicoleCappa) June
21, 2015

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina, to a
family of immigrants, called himself “a grandson of this land
[Turin]”. Pope’s grandparents Giovanni Bergoglio and Rosa
Margherita Vasallo lived in Turin before moving to Buenos Aires
in 1929 with their son, the Pope’s father.

Pope has repeatedly called upon the international community to
pay more attention to migrant crisis. Earlier in June he
described leaving migrants to die in the Mediterranean as an
“attack against life” similar to abortion or euthanasia.

A #Torino
Piazza Vittorio il piemontese #Papa #Francesco @Pontifex_it
celebra la #Messa #benvenuTOfrancesco pic.twitter.com/juHhGDLBj4

— Josto Maffeo (@JostoMaffeo) June
21, 2015

Pope Francis has become extremely popular for his open-minded
speeches, as well as for his concern for the poor. In addition to
speaking on an end to violence in the Middle East and eastern
Ukraine, the Pope publicly apologized for the sexual abuse of
children by Catholic clerics.

On several occasions,
Pope Francis has criticized capitalism and its destructive
influence of humanity. He also said he is considering embracing
homosexual believers, as well as partially accepting same-sex and
other religiously unsanctioned partnerships.

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