“One Riveting Moment”

Favellas are Brazil’s slums. In them, Mr. John L. Allen Jr. says, the “only things that really work are the gangs and the Pentecostals.” In his third installment from Rio during World Youth Day, Mr. Allen reports that Pope Francis “came to [one] slum to say, ‘The church is with you.’”    

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