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Often, Bergoglio [the Pope] uses a Biblical metaphor. He compares the Old Continent to Sarah, the wife of Abraham. Sara was sterile and when she was more than seventy years old, according to the customs of those remote times she gave her slave to her husband so he could father a child on her. But then, miraculously, she succeeded in having one at the age of ninety. “Europe,” Francisco loves to repeat, “is like Sarah, who first feared but then smiled secretly.” His hope, referring to what he had said, is that Europe will “smile secretly” at the immigrants
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