‘Fraternally Francis’: Does a papal ‘hot take’ on immigration help?
Has the pope penned a letter to make American Catholics rethink or simply harden their political priors?
Pope Francis waded yesterday more directly, and more pointedly, into the U.S. political debate than any of his predecessors ever have.
In a thousand-word “fraternal letter” to the American episcopate, the pope confronted head-on the “major crisis” of the Trump administration’s policy of mass deportation for illegal immigra…