ANN CORCORAN: Pope’s publicity stunt at Texas border timed to influence US election. [archive] “I’m never going to let readers forget that when the Pope went to the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2013 to “welcome” the illegal aliens coming from the Middle East and North Africa, he gave permission for the invasion of Europe. How dare he do the same here in a Presidential election year!”

Related, from July 2013: Pope lectures on Lampedusa. [archive]