NBC’s Maria Shriver: Pope ‘Asking Us To Rethink Success’

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SHRIVER: “Well, I hope they won't be the same. I hope none of us really will be the same if we actually listen to these sermons the Pope has been giving. He's asking all of us to think about how we can be of service, how we can be more compassionate, how we can recognize that each of us are a foreigner, so to speak, how we can look beyond numbers and look at human beings and look at their stories, look within. I think he is asking all of us to rethink success. 

I was particularly pleased that last night at St. Patrick's, he did a shout out to the nuns, their work on the front lines, which has been so amazing and life affirming for so many people. I think he touched on that by the involving pastoral landscape; he recognized they have stepped in in ways perhaps that they haven't gotten credit for. But I think he has talked to all of us about the importance of dialogue, about talking to people that we might not want to talk about and building bridges. So I hope that people will really reflect on what he has said, take it in, and adapt it to their own lives."