'Tangible love is that which gets its hands dirty,' says the 86-year-old Pope Francis who is in Lisbon for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day festival.
LISBON, Portugal – Pope Francis visited a Church-run social center in a low-income Lisbon neighborhood Friday, August 4, urging young people to shun “distilled,” orderly lives where everything seems perfect but to “get your hands dirty” by helping the needy.
“How many distilled, useless, lives pass through life without leaving a mark because their lives don’t have weight,” he said in an address to workers and volunteers at the social center after a children’s choir sang for him. “Through your actions, your commitment, by getting your hands dirty, by touching the reality and misery of others, you are creating inspiration, you are generating life,” he said.
The event comes less than six months after a report by a Portuguese commission said at least 4,815 minors were sexually abused by clergy – mostly priests – over seven decades.
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