LISBON : Pope Francis visited a Church-run social centre in a low-income Lisbon neighbourhood Friday, 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 centre after a children's choir sang for him. Francis spoke of the superficiality of people who help the poor to make themselves feel good but who then immediately wash their hands in disgust.
On Friday morning, Francis heard the confessions of three young Catholics, from Spain, Italy and Guatemala, in one of the parks hosting the festival.
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