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Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

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