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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.
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