Pope Francis: Lift up your hearts, not your cellphones, during worship
By Susan Hogan, The Washington Post
Published: November 9, 2017, 7:29pm
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Pope Francis is calling on Catholics to put down their cellphones during worship which, he said, should be a time for prayer and not for taking photos.
That means priests and bishops, too, he said.
“This is a bad thing,” he said during his weekly general audience on Wednesday at St.
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