I cleared broken branches and put them at the curb.
Then I read what Pope Francis said during his flight home to Rome from Columbia about President DONALD JOHN TRUMP and other client deniers, and the attack on DACA.
Here's what The New York Times reported:
Pope Criticizes Climate Change Deniers and Trump on DACA
By JASON HOROWITZ
SEPT. 11, 2017
ROME — As he flew near Caribbean islands devastated by Hurricane Irmaon his way back to the Vatican from Colombia on Sunday, Pope Francis said that political leaders and others who denied climate change reminded him of a passage from the psalms about man’s stubbornness.
“Man is stupid, the Bible said,” he said. “It’s like that, when you don’t want to see, you don’t see.”
In a typically wide-ranging news conference that included his questioning of United States President Donald J. Trump’s commitment to issues of life because of his plan to strip undocumented immigrant children of protections from deportation, the pope urged those who denied climate change to consult scientists who had clearly determined it was real and that humanity would “go down” if global warming was not recognized and addressed.
“Then,” he said, “decide and history will judge the decisions.”
During Mr. Trump’s May visit to the Vatican, the pope gave him a copy of his 2015 encyclical letter, “Laudato Si,” which called for a human response to global warming, and top Vatican officials appealed to the president not to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate accord. Weeks later, Mr. Trump pulled out of the agreement.
On the flight, the pope nevertheless appealed again to Mr. Trump, this time on his decision to end President Obama’s Deferred Action for Children Program, known as DACA. The program allows children brought illegally to the United States to stay without fear of deportation. Mr. Trump has given Congress, which has failed to pass immigration overhaul for the last decade, six months to enact legislation to resolve the status of about 800,000 people affected by his decision.
The pope, echoing the excoriation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – which called the president’s decision “reprehensible” — argued that the removal of children from families hurt both children and parents.
“I hope they rethink it a bit,” he said. “Because I heard the U.S. president speak. He presents himself as a man who is pro-life. If he is a good pro-life believer he must understand that family is the cradle of life and one must defend its unity,” said Francis, who in the past has said that advocates, like Mr. Trump, of a wall to keep out migrants on the Mexican border were “not Christian.”
The pope spoke on the papal plane after a five-day trip to Colombia during which he sought to sustain a fledgling peace process between the government and the rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, beatified two priests slain in the war, made an important change to the church’s liturgical rules and sustained a black eye when his popemobile stopped short in a crowd of pilgrims.
(“I was leaning over to greet children,” he said “and I saw the glass, and boom!”)
In contrast to his negative appraisal of Mr. Trump’s approach to immigration, the pope praised Italy’s efforts to welcome large numbers of migrants even as it sought to stem the tide of immigrants coming from Libya. Italy, he said, appeared to be “doing all it can with humanitarian care” and had a right to consider the realities of integration and manage the influx.
But, the pope said, “with prudence.”
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