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Security Can’t Keep Pope and Little Girl from an Encounter

Elizabeth Scalia - published on 09/23/15

"Permit the little children to come to me..."

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Speaking to the bishops at Saint Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Pope Francis said of the Catholic church, “we are promoters of the culture of encounter.”

Which, perhaps, is precisely why when this little girl sought one, His Holiness said, “yes, bring her here!”

Irresistible.

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