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reminded us that accompaniment has precedent in the Gospels, and thus we should, “... Show goodwill, show them the way and accompany them along it.”
Marginalized
The pope’s concern for people on the margins is sincere and deep. Early in his pontificate -- while he was still surprisingly nimble for an older man missing a portion of a lung -- he habitually waded into the crowds to greet people, kiss babies and give his security detail agita. On one memorable occasion, encountering a man whose face was covered in tumors thanks to a genetic disorder, Pope Francis, like his saintly namesake, gently kissed and embraced him -- a man who a beauty-obsessed world found hard to look at and easy to relegate to the sidelines. “We will not find the Lord unless we truly accept the marginalized,” Francis preached at a 2015 Mass for new cardinals. “Truly, dear brothers, the Gospel of the marginalized is where our credibility is at stake, is discovered and is revealed.”
By Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News
We might alliteratively understand Pope Francis in other ways, and his encyclicals would support us:
