
Christmas: the pope ask for hospitality, Marcy for migrants
The pope asked Sunday the 1.3 billion Catholics of the planet not to ignore the tragedy of migrants often "expelled from their land" by leaders ready to "shed innocent blood," in a Christmas homily calling for "hospitality."The Argentinian Jorge Bergoglio, grandson of Italian migrants, made the fate of refugees one of the fundamental themes of his pontificate started almost five years ago."Nobody should feel that he has no place on this Earth," he said in his traditional Christmas Eve homily, preceding his fifth Christmas message, to the more political tone he will address Monday.Another spiritual highlight of Christmas Eve, the midnight Mass in ancient Bethlehem, where Jesus was born according to the New Testament, did not escape the tensions of the moment.Pierbattista...