BY Ian Dunn | March 16 | 
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Plight of migrants is of top concern to the Pope
Holy Father urges world leaders to open their hearts and doors; and opens his own door to the Pontifical Scots College community (above)
Pope Francis has again urged world leaders to open their doors to migrants.
“I like to see leaders who open their hearts and their doors’ to the many migrants fleeing their countries,” the Pope said during the general audience in St Peter’s Square this morning.
Approximately 40 thousand pilgrims gathered in the square for the weekly catechesis as the Pope recalled our many ‘brothers and sisters who are living a real and dramatic situation of exile, far from their homeland, with the ruins of their homes and the fear still in their eyes, and even, unfortunately, the pain for the loss of their loved ones.’
“How is it possible that so much pain can strike innocent men, women and children who find doors closed to them when they attempt to go elsewhere?” he said. “And they are there, on the border, because so many doors and so many hearts are closed. Migrants today are suffering. They are without food and they are not allowed in. They do not feel a welcome.”
Pope Francis concluded his remarks by saying: “The Lord bless you all, and protect you from evil!”
To mark the Pontifical Scots College’s 400th anniversary [more in this Friday’s SCO in parishes], the college community (above) was invited to today’s general audience to sit near the Pope.
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