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One of the most essential and beautiful themes of Pope Francis’ papacy is “accompaniment”: the reality that the Church, like her Lord, must meet sinners, which is all of us, not with harshness and rejection and unrealistic immediate demands of moral perfection but rather with gentleness, patience, mercy, and love, and with real help to cooperate with God’s grace and grow more and more in a life of holiness and discipleship.