The time is right for a new biopic of Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants and the first American citizen to be canonized. From Donald Trump on down, many politicians are pushing antipathy for migrants to boost their election campaigns. I see the result in my own Brooklyn neighborhood, where efforts to help migrants at a local shelter are treated on social media with expressions of anger and sarcasm.
As Pope Francis has said, Cabrini’s life is of “extraordinary current relevance, because migrants certainly need good laws, development programs, and organization, but they also always need, first and foremost, love, friendship, and human closeness; they need to be heard, to have people look into their eyes, to be accompanied; they need God.”
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