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  • D1F91A70-DC

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Figura 1 de 2 da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2013, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

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    According to the cartoon,
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  • D1F4DC49-DC

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Figura 1 de 2 da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2013, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

    Django Unchained review:
    A truly wild Western with a killer line-up
    Review of Oscar-nominated film by Sunday Mirror film critic Mark Adam.

    Figura 2 de 2 da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2013, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    SONY PICTURES

    THE STARS
    Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Walton Goggins, Kerry Washington.
    THE STORY
        Two years before the start of the Civil War, the unlikely partnership of German bounty hunter Dr King Schultz (Waltz) and Django (Foxx) – the slave he recently freed – set about making money tracking and killing outlaws.
        But Django also has plans to rescue his wife Broomhilda (Washington) from charismatic but cruel Mississippi plantation owner Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).
    THE VERDICT
        When Quentin Tarantino decides to make a Western, you know it’s going to be epic, violent, funny, exciting and challenging. And this wonderfully irreverent and distinctively bloody take on the wild Wild West hits the spot, brimming with delightfully oddball characters and racy style.
        This is obviously not your run-of-the-mill cowboy tale. Instead, Tarantino flies close to controversy by setting his story against the violent and brutal backdrop of the slave trade.
        As usual his casting is spot on. Waltz (who won an Oscar for his evil Nazi role in Tarantino’s last film Inglourious Basterds) is smooth perfection as a German dentist/bounty hunter and is wonderfully complemented by Jamie Foxx’s steely-eyed former slave.
        The early bonding scenes of them tracking redneck villains (Django relishes the fact he can make money killing “white folk”) are amusingly and snappily shot.
        Initially, Tarantino pokes fun at the rampant and casual racism of the period – hilariously so in a scene involving a Ku Klux Klan mob complaining about eye holes in their hoods??– but things turn nastier when Schultz and Django attempt to rescue Broomhilda.
        Leonardo DiCaprio has a fine old time as the brutal Candie and absolutely oozes slippery cruelty. But he manages to be out-acted by Tarantino regular Samuel L Jackson, playing an elderly slave and close confidant of Candie who is as menacing and controlling as his supposed master.
    The meanings of the words “bounty hunter”, “run-of-the-mill” and “redneck” in the text are, respectively,
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  • D1EC026E-DC

    Inglês

    Adjetivos | Adjectives
    Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

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    Behind the Meaning of the Pope’s Names
    The new pope’s choice of ‘Francis’ hints at the direction of his reign.
        Enter Pope Francis. The first Jesuit pope. The first from Latin America. It is, indeed, a historic moment for the papacy. Those who waited for a leader from the new Catholic world will no doubt be __( I )__ by the choice, but his new status as the leader of a global church requires a different persona and a new mode of action. The new pope speaks not only for Argentina, Latin America, and the Jesuits, but also for the entire Roman Catholic world.

    Figura 2 de 2 da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2013, Adjetivos | Adjectives
    The first Jesuit pope. The first from Latin America. (Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)

        It is precisely for this reason that cardinals shed their names along with their brightly __( II )__ vestments. Historically, the tradition of selecting a new papal name dates back to the sixth century, when Pope John II swapped his awkwardly __( III )__ name Mercurius for the solidly Christian John. At the same time the selection of religious names is more than an opportunity to symbolically cast aside individual identity. Papal names chart a course for the future by summoning up the past. The new pope assumes either the mantle of religious heroes and leaders from days gone by or the virtues of the Innocents and the Piuses. The selection of the name both forges a new identity and signals how the pope wishes to be seen and remembered. It is, in essence, not only the answer to the __( IV )__ question “Who do you want to be when you grow up?” but also a way of preemptively writing one’s own reviews.
        Traditionally popes have been __( V )__ of reaching too high, of appearing too self-congratulatory. The office of the pope is built, literally and metaphorically, on the legacy of St. Peter, the apostle of Christ, whose remains lie beneath the papal seat in the Vatican. But there has been no Pope Peter II. Thus far, no pope has had the audacity to present himself as standing in continuity with the favored disciple of Jesus. Nor would Pope Francis have been able to select the name of the founder of his own order. A Pope Ignatius—after Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola—would have appeared self-serving.
        At first blush, Pope Francis’s selection of a previously __( VI )__ papal name—he is no 23rd anything—marks a break with the past and augurs well for those looking for a move away from deeply entrenched institutionalism. The new pope symbolically clears the deck for a new period of Catholic history. For a church desperately in need of an administrative makeover, it creates a nominally blank slate for the pale-garbed pontiff.
    Newsweek

    The adjectives that properly fill in blanks I, II, III, IV, V and VI, in the text, are
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  • D1E6F3BF-DC

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Figura 1 de 2 da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2013, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

    Behind the Meaning of the Pope’s Names
    The new pope’s choice of ‘Francis’ hints at the direction of his reign.
        Enter Pope Francis. The first Jesuit pope. The first from Latin America. It is, indeed, a historic moment for the papacy. Those who waited for a leader from the new Catholic world will no doubt be __( I )__ by the choice, but his new status as the leader of a global church requires a different persona and a new mode of action. The new pope speaks not only for Argentina, Latin America, and the Jesuits, but also for the entire Roman Catholic world.

    Figura 2 de 2 da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2013, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    The first Jesuit pope. The first from Latin America. (Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)

        It is precisely for this reason that cardinals shed their names along with their brightly __( II )__ vestments. Historically, the tradition of selecting a new papal name dates back to the sixth century, when Pope John II swapped his awkwardly __( III )__ name Mercurius for the solidly Christian John. At the same time the selection of religious names is more than an opportunity to symbolically cast aside individual identity. Papal names chart a course for the future by summoning up the past. The new pope assumes either the mantle of religious heroes and leaders from days gone by or the virtues of the Innocents and the Piuses. The selection of the name both forges a new identity and signals how the pope wishes to be seen and remembered. It is, in essence, not only the answer to the __( IV )__ question “Who do you want to be when you grow up?” but also a way of preemptively writing one’s own reviews.
        Traditionally popes have been __( V )__ of reaching too high, of appearing too self-congratulatory. The office of the pope is built, literally and metaphorically, on the legacy of St. Peter, the apostle of Christ, whose remains lie beneath the papal seat in the Vatican. But there has been no Pope Peter II. Thus far, no pope has had the audacity to present himself as standing in continuity with the favored disciple of Jesus. Nor would Pope Francis have been able to select the name of the founder of his own order. A Pope Ignatius—after Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola—would have appeared self-serving.
        At first blush, Pope Francis’s selection of a previously __( VI )__ papal name—he is no 23rd anything—marks a break with the past and augurs well for those looking for a move away from deeply entrenched institutionalism. The new pope symbolically clears the deck for a new period of Catholic history. For a church desperately in need of an administrative makeover, it creates a nominally blank slate for the pale-garbed pontiff.
    Newsweek

    The article clearly states that
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  • D1D0DA24-DC

    Português

    Interpretação de Textos
    Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Texto para a questão

    Texto I
    Esses Moços
    01 Esses moços, pobres moços
    02 Ah! Se soubessem o que eu sei
    03 Não amavam...
    04 Não passavam aquilo que eu já passei
    05 Por meus olhos
    06 Por meus sonhos
    07 Por meu sangue, tudo enfim
    08 É que eu peço a esses moços
    09 Que acreditem em mim
    10 Se eles julgam
    11 Que há um lindo futuro
    12 Só o amor nesta vida conduz
    13 Saibam que deixam o céu por ser escuro
    14 E vão ao inferno
    15 À procura de luz
    16 Eu também tive nos meus belos dias
    17 Essa mania que muito me custou
    18 E só as mágoas eu trago hoje em dia
    19 E essas rugas o amor me deixou!
    Lupicínio Rodrigues (1948)

    Texto II
    Capítulo LXXIII / O contrarregra
    Imagem da questão de Português, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2013, Interpretação de Textos
    Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1899)

    Obs.: dandy (dândi): homem elegante, que se traja com apuro
    Sobre o trecho do Texto II era a trombeta do juízo final e soou a tempo; assim faz o Destino, que é o seu próprio contrarregra (linhas 01-03), é correto afirmar que
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  • E7FD8F02-D9

    Português

    Interpretação de Textos
    UFTM · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Leia a charge.

    Imagem da questão de Português, UFTM 2013, Interpretação de Textos

    (www.acharge.com.br.)

    A charge ironiza

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  • E7E3977A-D9

    Português

    Gêneros Textuais
    UFTM · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Instrução: Leia o poema de Bocage para responder à questão.

    Oh retrato da morte, oh noite amiga
    Por cuja escuridão suspiro há tanto!
    Calada testemunha do meu pranto,
    De meus desgostos secretária antiga!

    Pois manda Amor, que a ti somente os diga,
    Dá-lhes pio agasalho no teu manto;
    Ouve-os, como costumas, ouve, enquanto
    Dorme a cruel, que a delirar me obriga:

    E vós, oh cortesãos da escuridade,
    Fantasmas vagos, mochos piadores,
    Inimigos, como eu, da claridade!

    Em bandos acudi aos meus clamores;
    Quero a vossa medonha sociedade,
    Quero fartar meu coração de horrores.

    (Bocage. Sonetos, 1994.)
    Nesse poema, predomina
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  • 4CF30506-D7

    Atualidades

    Atualidades do ano de 1994 ao ano de 2013
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    As instituições internacionais definem os deslocados internos como os indivíduos forçados a abandonar seus domicílios em razão de uma situação humanitária difícil, em caso de conflitos armados ou de catástrofes naturais, mas que permanecem em seus países de origem.

    Revista Carto, n. 18, julho/agosto de 2013.

    No final de 2012, existiam cerca de 28,8 milhões de “deslocados internos” no mundo. Sobre esse fato, considere as seguintes assertivas:
    I Globalmente, o número de refugiados supera o de “deslocados internos”, pois a maioria dos indivíduos nessas condições atravessa fronteiras políticas internacionais.
    II Os conflitos na Síria foram um fator importante para o crescimento do número de “deslocados internos” no mundo registrado entre 2011 e 2012.
    III Na América Latina, o país que conta com o maior número de “deslocados internos” é a Colômbia, devido ao conflito armado prolongado entre a guerrilha e o governo.


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    Atualidades

    Atualidades do ano de 1994 ao ano de 2013
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Levando em conta a recente crise diplomática entre o Brasil e a Bolívia que resultou na queda do chanceler Antônio Patriota, considere as seguintes afirmações:

    I Mesmo sem a anuência da presidência da república, o senador boliviano Roger Pinto Molina permaneceu abrigado, durante 15 meses, na embaixada brasileira da Bolívia.
    II Mesmo sem dispor de um salvo-conduto fornecido pelo governo boliviano, o senador boliviano Pinto Molina foi trazido para o Brasil em agosto de 2013, numa operação organizada pelo diplomata brasileiro Eduardo Saboia.
    III De acordo com o diplomata brasileiro Eduardo Saboia, a operação que trouxe o senador Pinto Molina ao Brasil foi previamente acertada com o chanceler Antônio Patriota, apesar de não contar com a anuência da presidência da República.

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  • 4CE47181-D7

    Atualidades

    Atualidades do ano de 1994 ao ano de 2013
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Ibrahim Boubacar Keita prestou juramento nesta quarta-feira [4/9] em Bamaco como presidente de Mali para um mandato de cinco anos, em uma cerimônia na qual prometeu garantir a unidade do país, sacudido por 18 meses de crise político-militar.

    http://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/mundo/2013/09/04/interna_mundo,386223/ ibrahim-boubacar-keita-presta-juramento-como-novo-presidente-de-mali.shtml

    Tendo em vista os eventos que marcaram a crise político militar à qual se refere a reportagem, analise as seguintes afirmações:
    I Fundamentalistas islâmicos suspeitos de ligação com a Al Qaeda deram um Golpe de estado e impuseram suas leis religiosas em todo o território malinês, desencadeando conflitos com a população cristã.
    II Separatistas tuaregues e fundamentalistas islâmicos suspeitos de ligação com a Al Qaeda assumiram o controle sobre o norte do país, desencadeando conflitos que levaram à deposição do presidente eleito
    . III A pedido do governo malinês e com o aval do Conselho de Segurança da ONU, a França interveio no Mali e atacou as forças insurgentes, que recuaram de suas posições.

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  • 4CDF521E-D7

    Atualidades

    Atualidades do ano de 1994 ao ano de 2013
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    O presidente dos EUA, Barack Obama, disse aos líderes do G20 que os Estados Unidos têm alta convicção de que forças sírias usaram armas químicas e destacou a necessidade de reforçar o banimento internacional ao uso dessas armas, disse um importante conselheiro da Casa Branca, nesta sexta-feira [6/9]”.

    http://exame.abril.com.br/mundo/noticias/obama-diz-ter-alta-confianca-do-uso-de-arma-quimica-na-siria

    Sobre o uso de armas químicas na Síria e as iniciativas para o banimento internacional dessas armas, é correto afirmar:
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  • 4CDABFB4-D7

    Geografia

    Impactos e soluções nos meios natural e rural
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Ao contrário do que alguns setores da sociedade imaginam, as Unidades de Conservação (UCs) não constituem espaços protegidos “intocáveis”, apartados de qualquer atividade humana [...] elas fornecem direta e/ou indiretamente bens e serviços que satisfazem várias necessidades da sociedade brasileira, inclusive produtivas.

    http://www.unep.org.br/admin/publicacoes/texto/UCsBrasil_MMA_WCMC.pdf

    Considerando esse tema, examine as seguintes afirmações:

    I Nas florestas nacionais e estaduais, a exploração de madeira em tora é vetada, mas é possível gerar renda por meio da exploração de produtos não madeireiros, tais como borracha e castanha-do-pará.
    II Todas as unidades de conservação podem gerar receita com atividades turísticas.
    III Uma parcela significativa da qualidade e da quantidade da água que compõe vários dos reservatórios de usinas hidrelétricas no Brasil é assegurada por unidades de conservação.
    IV A conservação de florestas, incluindo as unidades de conservação, desempenha um papel entendido como vital nas iniciativas de combate às mudanças climáticas.

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  • 4C934A80-D7

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Imagem da questão de Inglês, FGV 2013, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

    In paragraph 2, the sentence “That joke, however, is becoming less funny” most likely refers to which of the following ideas?
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  • 4C663837-D7

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Imagem da questão de Inglês, FGV 2013, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

    According to the information in the article, epicatechin (epi)
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  • 4C40F73B-D7

    Português

    Interpretação de Textos
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Imagem da questão de Português, FGV 2013, Interpretação de Textos

    Entre as técnicas narrativas que entram na composição do excerto encontra-se


    I o emprego dos discursos direto, indireto e indireto livre;

    II o foco da narração incidindo primeiramente sobre a vida mental e de relação, mas bem situado em contexto histórico-social determinado;

    III o narrador onisciente, que, no entanto, constitui as personagens principalmente a partir da disseminação de indícios e de sugestões, demandando a perspicácia do leitor.


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  • 4C27DD1C-D7

    Português

    Advérbios
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Imagem da questão de Português, FGV 2013, Advérbios

    Dentre os comentários sobre as expressões sublinhadas nos seguintes trechos extraídos do texto, o único que NÃO está correto é:
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  • 4C248617-D7

    Português

    Interpretação de Textos
    FGV · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Imagem da questão de Português, FGV 2013, Interpretação de Textos

    Considere as seguintes afirmações sobre o texto:

    I No primeiro parágrafo, o autor apresenta a teoria segundo a qual existem duas possibilidades de implantação de uma língua em um novo ambiente. Ao chamá-las de “extremas”, ele revela que não concorda com a referida teoria, por considerá-la exagerada.
    II No segundo parágrafo, introduzem-se informações novas referentes ao esquema exposto no primeiro, as quais têm a finalidade de relativizar a apresentação desse esquema.
    III No terceiro parágrafo, ao comparar a história do português com a do latim, o autor introduz uma terceira possibilidade de implantação de uma língua em um novo ambiente.
    IV No quarto parágrafo, o autor explica por que a implantação do português no Brasil se insere na segunda possibilidade apresentada no início do texto.

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  • 86F2441D-C6

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    UECE · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    TEXT



        RIO DE JANEIRO — Pope Francis on Thursday delivered some of his most politically provocative remarks since his papacy began this year, hopping from his popemobile to walk through a slum in this city before urging young people to fight against corruption, a leading grievance behind the huge street protests that shook dozens of Brazilian cities in June.
        “Do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it,” Francis said at the favela, or slum, of Varginha, in an area that has commonly been known here as the Gaza Strip for its gun battles and drug trafficking in the past. “Do not lose trust, do not allow your hope to be extinguished,” he added, acknowledging that it was common for some to “grow disillusioned with news of corruption.”
        By singling out corruption in a folksy visit to a Brazilian favela on his first trip abroad as pope, Francis, an Argentine-born Jesuit, emphasized his aim to refocus the Roman Catholic Church on the neglected margins of society, especially in Brazil and other parts of Latin America where the popularity of evangelical churches has surged among the poor in recent decades.
        In a nod to the Brazilian political authorities who have warmly welcomed him, Francis also praised the government’s antipoverty programs and did not specifically mention the anti-establishment protests in Brazil. But he did critique Rio de Janeiro’s so-called pacification project in the city’s slums, in which security forces assert control over lawless areas.
        “No amount of pacification will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes a part of itself,” the pope said in Varginha, a slum that has recently been subjected to pacification. In a remark that could resonate in Latin America and in the United States, which is also grappling with the widening disparity between the haves and the have-nots, Francis said that a society “impoverishes itself” by perpetuating such inequality.
        Care for the poor and marginalized is an integral part of Catholic teaching, and a concern of many popes and encyclicals, including those by Francis’ predecessor, Benedict XVI. But Francis has made it a hallmark of his young papacy, telling journalists in Rome days after his election, “How I would like a church that is poor and for the poor.” He has demonstrated that ideal by living relatively humbly as pope: in a communal guesthouse rather than the opulent papal apartment, wearing a pectoral cross of iron instead of gold, flying commercial. He recently told priests that they should not drive fancy cars, and he has traveled around Rio this week in a compact Fiat.
        “He is helping to wake people up,” said Natalia Morais, 21, a nursing student from Minas Gerais State who traveled to Rio to see the pope as part of World Youth Day, a conference attended by hundreds of thousands of Catholic youth. “When the pope talks, political leaders listen, and that’s what’s needed in Brazil, where our protests are about their corruption,” Ms. Morais said.
        Reaching beyond Brazil, Francis told Argentines who came here for the conference that “the church must be taken into the streets” in a struggle against complacency. “Stir things up, cause confounding, but do not diminish faith in Jesus Christ,” he said in Spanish.
        In each of Francis’ public appearances, he has been accorded a rock-star reception. On an uncommonly cold and rainy morning, hundreds of residents lined the narrow, muddy sidewalks of the Varginha favela to glimpse the first pope from the Americas, who obliged by stopping often to touch and bless people.
        Many onlookers had made their own shirts to commemorate the event, with a photo of Francis. Others draped themselves in Brazilian flags and waved banners bearing his image. Residents darted in and out of their homes, checking their televisions and radios to learn the pope’s whereabouts and calling the information out to their neighbors standing on wet rooftops to get a better view.
        Sônia Curato, 48, a manicurist, said the pope’s visit was different from that of other leaders. “Politicians come all the time. They make promises and leave,” she said. “He is a very simple person. You can tell that. He has charisma. He speaks to the people, doesn’t like going around in an armored car.”


    By Simon Romero and Taylor Barnes
    Published: July 25, 2013
    www.nytimes.com

    In his speech in Varginha, Pope Francis mentioned that one of his aims in the Papacy is 
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  • 86E92ECF-C6

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    UECE · 2013DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    TEXT



        RIO DE JANEIRO — Pope Francis on Thursday delivered some of his most politically provocative remarks since his papacy began this year, hopping from his popemobile to walk through a slum in this city before urging young people to fight against corruption, a leading grievance behind the huge street protests that shook dozens of Brazilian cities in June.
        “Do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it,” Francis said at the favela, or slum, of Varginha, in an area that has commonly been known here as the Gaza Strip for its gun battles and drug trafficking in the past. “Do not lose trust, do not allow your hope to be extinguished,” he added, acknowledging that it was common for some to “grow disillusioned with news of corruption.”
        By singling out corruption in a folksy visit to a Brazilian favela on his first trip abroad as pope, Francis, an Argentine-born Jesuit, emphasized his aim to refocus the Roman Catholic Church on the neglected margins of society, especially in Brazil and other parts of Latin America where the popularity of evangelical churches has surged among the poor in recent decades.
        In a nod to the Brazilian political authorities who have warmly welcomed him, Francis also praised the government’s antipoverty programs and did not specifically mention the anti-establishment protests in Brazil. But he did critique Rio de Janeiro’s so-called pacification project in the city’s slums, in which security forces assert control over lawless areas.
        “No amount of pacification will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes a part of itself,” the pope said in Varginha, a slum that has recently been subjected to pacification. In a remark that could resonate in Latin America and in the United States, which is also grappling with the widening disparity between the haves and the have-nots, Francis said that a society “impoverishes itself” by perpetuating such inequality.
        Care for the poor and marginalized is an integral part of Catholic teaching, and a concern of many popes and encyclicals, including those by Francis’ predecessor, Benedict XVI. But Francis has made it a hallmark of his young papacy, telling journalists in Rome days after his election, “How I would like a church that is poor and for the poor.” He has demonstrated that ideal by living relatively humbly as pope: in a communal guesthouse rather than the opulent papal apartment, wearing a pectoral cross of iron instead of gold, flying commercial. He recently told priests that they should not drive fancy cars, and he has traveled around Rio this week in a compact Fiat.
        “He is helping to wake people up,” said Natalia Morais, 21, a nursing student from Minas Gerais State who traveled to Rio to see the pope as part of World Youth Day, a conference attended by hundreds of thousands of Catholic youth. “When the pope talks, political leaders listen, and that’s what’s needed in Brazil, where our protests are about their corruption,” Ms. Morais said.
        Reaching beyond Brazil, Francis told Argentines who came here for the conference that “the church must be taken into the streets” in a struggle against complacency. “Stir things up, cause confounding, but do not diminish faith in Jesus Christ,” he said in Spanish.
        In each of Francis’ public appearances, he has been accorded a rock-star reception. On an uncommonly cold and rainy morning, hundreds of residents lined the narrow, muddy sidewalks of the Varginha favela to glimpse the first pope from the Americas, who obliged by stopping often to touch and bless people.
        Many onlookers had made their own shirts to commemorate the event, with a photo of Francis. Others draped themselves in Brazilian flags and waved banners bearing his image. Residents darted in and out of their homes, checking their televisions and radios to learn the pope’s whereabouts and calling the information out to their neighbors standing on wet rooftops to get a better view.
        Sônia Curato, 48, a manicurist, said the pope’s visit was different from that of other leaders. “Politicians come all the time. They make promises and leave,” she said. “He is a very simple person. You can tell that. He has charisma. He speaks to the people, doesn’t like going around in an armored car.”


    By Simon Romero and Taylor Barnes
    Published: July 25, 2013
    www.nytimes.com

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