Pope Francis on Wednesday urged American bishops to welcome immigrants and "flee the temptation of narcissism,"
USA Today reports.
The Pope spoke in Italian in to the bishops at St. Matthews's Cathedral and touched on the sex abuse scandals in the American church. He also spoke on a variety of issues that divide Americans along political lines.
"The innocent victim of abortion, children who die of hunger or from bombings, immigrants who drown in the search for a better tomorrow, the elderly or the sick who are considered a burden, the victims of terrorism, wars, violence and drug trafficking, the environment devastated by man's predatory relationship with nature – at stake in all of this is the gift of God, of which we are noble stewards but not masters,"
CBS News reported the Pontiff as saying.
As for the hot-topic issue of immigration, Francis said, "Do not be afraid to welcome them…. I am certain that, as so often in the past, these people will enrich America and its church."
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