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Hypocrisy is “the sin that Jesus condemns most,” Francis told a group of some 1,000 Lutherans gathered in Paul VI Hall in Vatican City. The Pope told the group, on ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome, that a person cannot be a Christian without living as a Christian.
“It is a hypocritical call oneself a Christian and send away a refugee, or one who needs my help. Jesus taught us who the good Christian is in the parable of the good Samaritan,” he said.
The Pope also underscored what he termed the “contradiction in those who want to defend Christianity in the West and on the other hand are against other religions and against refugees,” he said, in evident reference to Muslim migrants. ...
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