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The Gospel & One Last Lesson from Pope Francis

How the public related to Pope Francis, what it says about the human heart, and the truth Charles Dickens could only express through his fiction.

On Monday, I took my kids to the park and ran into a friend. As she and I began discussing the news of Pope Francis’s death, she said she felt like she never truly knew Pope Francis. She commented that she sent too much time comparing him to Pope Saint John Paul II, and wished she hadn’t done so.

I nodded my headed in agreement. I too only knew the Pope through sound bites and headlines.

Isn’t this all of us?

How many of us knew what Pope Francis…

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