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lil  ·  4009 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pope Francis: APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION EVANGELII GAUDIUM

Not being catholic, I'm unfamiliar with apostolic exhortations - so I looked it up:

    An apostolic exhortation is a type of communication from the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. It encourages a community of people to undertake a particular activity
Francis is fast becoming my favourite pope.

The challenge is to act effectively:

    Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own.