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Rome, Italy, Apr 4, 2014 \/ 10:35 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- In a March 31 interview with communications students, Pope Francis responded to previous accusations of being a communist, explaining that his preference for the poor is in fact based in the Gospel.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI heard two months ago that a person referred to my preference for speaking about the poor, saying: 'This Pope is a communist, no?' And no, this is the banner of the Gospel, not of communism, of the Gospel,\u201d the Pope explained during the encounter.<\/p>\n

\tGiven to three Belgian youth who are studying communications sciences, the interview was broadcast on the evening of April 3 on the Belgium website deredactie.be., and was later picked up by Italian news agency ReppublicaTV.<\/p>\n

\tDuring the interview, one student asked the Pope where his preference for the poor and most needy comes from, to which the pontiff responded: \u201cBecause this is the heart of the Gospel, and I am a believer, I believe in God, I believe in Christ, I believe in the Gospel, and the heart of the Gospel is the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAnd because of this I believe that the poor are the center of the Gospel of Jesus. This is clear if we read it,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n

\tLater on, a student expressed to the Pope that despite not being a believer, she feels inspired by him because of his work.<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis emphasized to the students that \u201cpeople need to try to speak with authenticity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cMy authenticity is that I am speaking with brothers, all of us are brothers, believers, non-believers, of this religious profession, of another, Jews, Muslims, all of us are brothers. Man is at the center of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAccording to Italian agency RaiNews, the interview was part of the communications project \u201cVerses Vis,\u201d involving a group of 15 youths from an initiative in Fiandra, a town in Northern Belgium, who received permission from the Vatican to videotape the encounter.<\/p>\n

\tResponding to other questions, RaiNews reports that Pope Francis also observed that \u201cin this moment of history, man has been cast down from being the most important, he has been drained to the peripheries, situated in the center of power, of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn this world the youth are expelled. Also the children, we don't want children, only small families,\u201d he continued, adding that \u201calso the elderly are expelled: many of them die because of hidden euthanasia, because no one takes care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe have entered into a throwaway culture, and whatever doesn't serve this globalization is discarded: the elderly, children and the youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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