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The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family, but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.

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George Weigel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: April 17
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