In a speech delivered at the Vatican just three days before the U.S. presidential election, Pope Francis urged social justice activists from around the world not to give into the politics of fear by building walls but instead work to build bridges.
â??Because fearâ??as well as being a good deal for the merchants of arms and deathâ??weakens and destabilizes us, destroys our psychological and spiritual defenses, numbs us to the suffering of others,â? he said.
â??In the end,â? he continued, â??it makes us cruel.â?
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