Rarely does a day go by without the pope - any pope - delivering some generalized statement about the current global situation, or about moral and ethical issues in public life. When you're pope, that just comes with the territory.
In general, most cultures on earth are mature enough to recognize that when the pope opens his mouth, he isn't necessarily talking about them. It doesn't naturally occur to people in India, for instance, to assume that when the pope speaks out against modern-day slavery, he's necessarily talking about the estimated 18.4 million people working under slave-like conditions in the Asian giant.
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