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14 March 2013 Last updated at 13:21 ET
Pope Francis has warned the Catholic Church would become “a compassionate NGO” without spiritual renewal.
In a Sistine Chapel Mass with cardinals on his first day as Church leader, the pontiff, 76, said: “If we do not confess to Christ what would we be?
“We would end up a compassionate NGO. What would happen would be like when children make sand castles and then it all falls down.”
Francis is the first Latin American – and the first Jesuit – Pope,
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