Pope Francis waves to children while he waits aboard a catamaran to depart for the Maltese island of Gozo where would lead a prayer service on April 2, 2022. / Vatican MediaGozo, Malta, Apr 2, 2022 / 11:19 am (CNA).Pope Francis told Catholics in Malta on Saturday that when they offer charity to the migrants and refugees who arrive on their shores, they are serving Christ himself.Speaking outside of Malta's national shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary on April 2, the pope said that Catholics "cannot only welcome each other, in the shelter of our beautiful churches, while outside so many brothers and sisters suffer and are crucified by pain, poverty and violence.""Yours is a crucial geographical position, overlooking the Mediterranean; you are like a magnet and port of salvation for people buffeted by the tempests of life who, for various reasons, land on your shores," Pope Francis said at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of Ta' Pinu."It is Christ...