June 30, 2015

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“Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start, despite their mental and social conditioning.”

- Pope Francis, from "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" (Chapter 6, Section I, Paragraph 205) as quoted in Laudato Si': We are family by Susan Rose Francois, published on Global Sisters Report June 26, 2015