going to the
MARGINS
BY BISHOP BILL MUHM
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hen Christ was born at Bethlehem, he literally went to the margins of the civilized world. Geographically speaking, Bethlehem was at the remote margins of the Roman Empire, very far from Rome. On 24 October 2016, Pope Francis said to the Society of Jesus: “…the Church needs you, relies on you and
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continues to turn to you with trust, particularly to reach those physical and spiritual places which others do not reach or have difficulty in reaching… to walk together — free and obedient — moving toward the margins of society where no one else reaches.” Many thousands of our service members, family members, and
