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POPE'S MESSAGE | Dads: Play with your kids, be strong, loving, moral role models

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Pope Francis arrived to lead ecumenical vespers Jan. 25 at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The service marked the closing of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity as well as the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

VATICAN CITY -- When their lives are all work and no play, men turn their children into "orphans" who lack a father to guide them, show them love and teach them values, Pope Francis said.

"They are orphans in a family because their fathers are often absent, also physically, from home, but above all because when they are home they don't act like fathers, they don't dialogue with their children, they don't fulfill their role as educators, they don't give their children, by way of their example and their words, those principles, values and rules of life that they need like bread," he said.

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