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You tell me: can you live crushed under the weight of the present? without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? can you go on like this? this, to me, is the most urgent problem that the church is facing.
-Pope Francis
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You Tell Me: Can You Live Crushed

Pope Francis
You tell me: can you live crushed under the weight of the present? without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? can you go on like this? this, to me, is the most urgent problem that the church is facing.
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