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Pope Francis says 'not true Jubilee unless it reaches pockets'

In general audience, pontiff advocates for wealth redistribution

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(ANSA) - Vatican City, February 10 - Pope Francis in his weekly general audience Wednesday advocated for wealth redistribution and said "if the Jubilee doesn't reach pockets, it's not a true Jubilee".
    "And this is in the Bible, this pope isn't inventing it, no, it's in the Bible," Pope Francis said.
    "How beautiful it would be if freedom, land and money were to again become assets for all and not only some as it happens now," he said, adding that "more or less, eighty percent of the wealth of humanity is in the hands of less than twenty percent of the people.
    "This is a Jubilee to convert oneself, so our heart becomes larger and more generous".
   

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