Each of the five players present shared a different social initiative with the pope.
This week at the Vatican:
The pope celebrated Mass at the Vatican for World Day of the Poor.
On Nov. 28 Pope Francis will celebrate his seventh consistory, in which he'll appoint 13 new cardinals.
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At the end of the Angelus, he prayed for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines and countries going through difficult moments.
John Paul II's most important biographer, George Weigel, points out the Church's relatively quick response once concrete information was presented.
