Two refugee families are to arrive soon at the Vatican after Pope Francis made space in the apartments there. Cardinal Angelo Comastri, vicar-general of the Vatican, said the family to be cared for by his parish and will be chosen from newly-arrived migrants on the island of Lampedusa, the first port of call for migrants crossing from Libya. Cardinal Comastri said they would be able to take advantage of the Holy See’s health care. In an interview on Monday with the Italian bishops’ conference television station he said: "Then we hope they can integrate themselves in the Italian and Roman fabric and can have a future." Francis made the decision to house the refugees over the weekend, after calling for Catholics across Europe to house people from the war-torn country. On Sunday Pope Francis told an audience in St Peter's Square: “May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe, take in one family.” Although half of the refugees currently entering Europe are from Syria, it has not yet been revealed where the papal lodgers will come from.