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Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

Pope Francis

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
Chemist
Jesuit
Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
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Flores
Buenos Aires
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Francisco
Pope Francis I
Pope Francis
Jorge Bergoglio
Franciscus I
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