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Let's just say migrant deaths don't alarm us

One of the twenty-seven unaccompanied minors aboard the Guardia di Finanza boat arrive at Italian island of Lampedusa on August 17, 2019. [AFP]

Pope Francis is ready for a vicious fight - first against Satan and then the many nations cautious to admit the rising migrant crisis in Europe.

Last week, he was in Marseille, France, where he turned up the heat on countries in whose borders lots of migrants have been caught up between death at sea and ugly diplomatic rows.

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