While the United States marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with parades, cookouts, and fireworks, history’s first American pope spent the Fourth of July on Lampedusa, the tiny Sicilian island that serves as Europe’s front door for migrants crossing from North Africa. Tens of thousands of others never reached it alive.
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