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Rubio's great response to a similar question/statement from the press in that same press meeting: "Well, first of all, the pope is not a political figure. I know he’s covered like one, but they’re not. They’re the earthly head of the Roman Catholic Church. And the church has strong social doctrine teachings, and I think there is not incompatibility. We, too, are compassionate towards migrants. I would argue there’s nothing compassionate about mass migration. There’s nothing compassionate about open borders that allows people to be trafficked here. There’s nothing compassionate about – either, to the American people, about flooding our country with individuals that are criminals and prey on our communities. There’s nothing compassionate about any of that...I understand there’s this temptation to cover the papacy as a political office. It is not a political office. It is a spiritual office, and it is one that – it has social teachings that are aligned with the faith and with the gospel. And – but I don’t believe those are incompatible with a national policy that shows – tries to prevent mass migration, which is not compassionate to people that are being trafficked into our country...When a million people come here illegally, if a thousand of them are dangerous criminals, those are a lot of victims, and that’s not fair either, and that’s not compassionate.
We are the most compassionate nation in the world. Every single year a million people legally migrate to the United States permanently, permanent residency. No other nation is nearly as compassionate as we are. We’ve been doing it for a long time. But it can’t be 5 million people a year that come, with 4 million illegally. That can’t – that’s just not sustainable and there’s nothing compassionate about it for Americans."
Respectfully disagreeing w Pope on an issue of policy, not dogma/doctrine/faith.
