In a Thursday speech to Congress that really did serve up the whole Catholic enchilada, Pope Francis called on Americans “to avoid a common temptation nowadays: to discard whatever proves troublesome.”
His halting English only added power to his words because of the difficulty it took him to deliver them as Francis pointed to four “great Americans” he held up as models: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton.
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