The pope made this possibility even more apparent in his homily at Mount Nevo.
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In his homily, given to about 50 young offenders, he said that everyone should help one another.
But in his homily, he acknowledged many Christian Brothers had "betrayed a trust" and that "unthinkable harm" had been caused.
In his homily, Francis said Christian joy "isn't born from possessing a lot of things but from having met" Jesus.
In his homily, he also marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain by paying tribute to those who sacrificed their lives resisting the "evil ideology" of the Nazi regime.
When I was in Rome a few weeks ago, Pope Francis spoke movingly in his homily about our commitments to each other, not just as people of faith, but, he went on to say, but as human beings.
In his homily, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, called for unity within the church, a not-so-veiled appeal to the cardinal electors to put their differences aside for the good of the church and the next pope.
Cardinal O'Brien will say in his Easter Sunday homily at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh that many people wear crosses "not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work".
The pope, who plans to deliver his homily in Italian, isn't expected to stay strictly within a script.
In a homily at his final Ash Wednesday mass in Saint Peter's basilica earlier in the month, he said the Catholic Church had been "defiled" by internal divisions, and suggested that he had been surrounded by "too much individualism and personal rivalry".
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The 85-year-old pontiff delivered a prayer for peace to the crowd in St Peter's Square after his homily at Mass.
His homily belied the discord that has come to the fore in the wake of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation.
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