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The Sunday edition (September 17) of Avvenire, the daily of the Italian Bishops, caused a scandal after it published on the first-page portrait photos of illegal immigrants with the headline, “All Italians, Not Yet Citizens.” Avvenire fights together with the leftwing Italian government for the introduction of a birthright citizenship in the country.
As a consequence, Avvenire was boycotted by priests and faithful alike. A parish-priest in the outskirts of Rome said to the Secolo d’Italia, “We are a parish, not a party section.” Another priest wrote on Twitter, “Why did they not put on the first page the faces of persecuted Christians?”
Father Pier Luca Bancale, an army chaplain belonging the Legion of Christ wrote, “I am dismayed by today’s first page brazen propaganda for birthright citizenship. Does the Church only avoid politics when it is about homosexual unions?”