Pope Francis on Sunday denounced Europe's indifference toward migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea as he elevated to sainthood an Italian bishop and Italian-born missionary.
off Syria, in one of the deadliest recent shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.
Disturbed by statistics on Italian emigration that swelled to 84,000 in 1884 alone, Scalabrini wrote that the mass emigration and separation of families would"help strew white the lands of America with their bones." Francis, himself the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina, has recalled being inspired by Zatti's life while he was Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina, saying the number of men entering the Catholic order increased after he prayed for the late bishop's intercession.
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