The loudest opponent of Italy’s new antimigrant policy? The Catholic Church

In a small church in central Italy, a priest told his congregation one recent Sunday morning that the motto of Italy's highest-profile politician - "Italians First" - was antithetical to Christianity itself. Farther north, another parish priest said that supporters of the country's new governing hardline anti-migrant party "cannot call themselves Christian." On the island of Sicily, an archbishop speaking in a public square took an even broader swipe, criticizing politicians who drive "their own miserable success" by exploiting fear about migrants.