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Pope: I Overlooked the Middle Class

On trip to Latin America.

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Pope Francis admitted Sunday night to overlooking struggles faced by the middle class in his focus on the poor. A German journalist aboard the papal airplane asked him about the omission. “It’s a good correction, thanks,” Francis said. “You are right. It’s an error of mine not to think about this.” He made the remarks while returning to the Vatican from a whirlwind trip around his native South America.

Read it at The New York Times

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