Care for the poor, says Pope Francis – they are your passport to paradise

People have a basic choice in the way they live: either striving to build up treasures on earth or giving to others in order to gain heaven, Pope Francis has said. “What we invest in love remains, the rest vanishes,” the Pope said in his homily on Sunday, the first World Day of the Poor. Between 6,000 and 7,000 poor people attended the Mass in St Peter’s Basilica, where altar...

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