Pope Francis releases a music album

“But his voice does sing and play, not to the cardinals, but to the people, the faithful”.

On Rolling Stone’s website in September, the popular culture magazine said that it was “proud to premiere” Wake Up! and uploaded an exert from the album on the site.

“Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!” finds Pope Francis addressing a South Korean audience in English previous year amid atmospheric synths, trumpeting horns and skyscraping electric guitars reminiscent of Godspeed You! “Black Emperor”, the magazine wrote, referencing a Canadian post-rock band popular in the 1990s.

In conclusion, Pope Francis reminded his listeners that we need to promote and defend the family, above all when it concerns the gift of children and affirming the dignity of women.

“It is corruption: a piece for me and another piece for me”, he said. “But he hasn’t yet said what he thought of it”.

The pope’s homily, which centered on the day’s Gospel reading of Jesus’ Parable of the Unjust Steward, came the day after the official release of two books by Italian journalists detailing financial mismanagement within the Vatican.

In an interview with a homeless man who makes his living selling newspapers in Holland Pope Francis confided that he had once wanted to be a butcher.

“In confronting various ways that threaten human life, you have approached the frailty of your neighbor, you have given yourselves so that those who live in precarious conditions are not excluded and cast aside in society”, he said.

Asked if he ever felt pressure to sell a few of the treasures of the Church, such as artistic treasures like Michelangelo’s Pieta, which is in St. Peter’s Basilica, he said he could not because they belonged to the whole world.

“Let us see this profound truth as a call to persevere on our ecumenical journey towards full and visible communion, growing more and more in love and mutual understanding”, Pope Francis said.

“There was a market with a butcher and a fruit-seller”.

“This is called ‘serving, ‘ this is the joy of the Church: going out to others, always; going out to others and giving life”.

He said, “I would go grocery shopping with my mother and grandmother”. I was four years old and very little.

He asked that God “save us from temptations”, which in the end is the temptation to live “a double life: I show myself off as a minister, one who serves, but deep down, I use others”.