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On Sunday, the pope had an emotional moment onstage during his whirlwind tour of Asia when a young homeless girl in the Philippines asked him why the good Lord lets young people fall into drugs and prostitution. “Why does God allow these things to happen to us?” 12-year-old Glyzelle Palomar asked. “The children are not guilty of anything.” As she broke into tears, Pope Francis wrapped Palomar and another child in a big hug. Then he ditched his preprepared speech to talk directly to the people. “She is the only one who has put [forth] a question for which there is no answer and she wasn’t even able to express it in words, but in tears,” he said. “The nucleus of your question … almost doesn’t have a reply.”
