Mary is like all the "brave" mothers around the world today, Pope Francis told his weekly general audience Wednesday.
Francis told an estimated crowd of some 15,000 in St Peter's Square that the Madonna "doesn't get depressed when nothing goes right" and "reappears at the crucial moment, when all the others have fled".
Mary "waits even when evil seems to have eclipsed God," he said.
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