The Papacy: Paternalistic as Ever: A Response to Anja Karlsson Franck
Monday Morning Meetings on Migration
English - May 06, 2016 00:00 - 10 minutes - 18.7 MBNews migration immigration politics refugees borders asylum Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Childhood Without a Future? Unaccompanied Youth Migrants in Europe
Last week Anja Karlsson Franck spoke to us about Pope Francis’ decision to rescue 12 migrants who were stranded on the Greek Island of Lesbos. Anja argued that we might the Pope’s gesture as a problematic but still politically progressive act. In today’s recording Polly Pallister Wilkins joins forces with some of Anja’s remarks, but cautions us against making the Papacy a standard bearer of humanitarianism in the European migration crisis.