Vatican City, Jan 13, 2016 / 03:02 am
When Pope Francis was a parish priest in Argentina, he met a mother with young children who had been abandoned by her husband.
She had no steady income. When odd jobs were scarce, she would prostitute herself in order to feed her children and provide for her family. During that time, she would visit the local parish, which tried to help her by offering food and material goods.
One day during the Christmas season the mother visited and requested to see the parish priest, Father Jorge Bergoglio. He thought she was going to thank him for the package of food the parish had sent to her.
"Did you receive it?" Fr. Bergoglio had asked her.