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To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

Pope Francis

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
Chemist
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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Pope Francis I
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Jorge Bergoglio
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