The Christmas Message & Refugees

Pope Francis focused on the plight of refugees during his Christmas Eve mass, as the NYT reports. He made a direct parallel between Joseph and Mary who, on traveling to Bethlehem, found a city “that had no room or place for the stranger from afar” and current refugees who “do not choose to go away but, driven from their land, leave behind their dear ones” in the pursuit of “survival.” Jesus, the pope proclaimed, “comes to give all of us our document of citizenship.”

Artist Kelly Latimore has the following take on the story (which, in fairness, predates the pope’s comments but clearly connects to them):

And the internets have offered this take on the message:

-KitJ