BY Daniel Harkins | January 25 | 
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Terminator meets the Pope
Pope Francis greeted actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican January 25 and accepted a book from the Austrian-American.
The Pope earlier focused his general Audience address on Biblical heroine Judith, ‘a woman of great beauty and wisdom,’ who reproached the people of Israel for their lack of trust in God to deliver them from foreign invaders.
“They were at the point of saying, ‘God has sold us,'” the Pope said. “How many times have we come to situations that test our limits where we are not even able to trust in the Lord? It is an ugly temptation.”
Facing a situation full of despair, the pope continued, the people gave God five days to intervene. However, even in prayer they doubted that the Lord would help them.
“Five days are given to God to intervene—this is the sin! Five days of waiting but already expecting the end. In reality, no one among the people is capable of hoping,” he said.
The story of Judith exemplifies the importance of the ‘courageous counsel’ of humble women, Pope Francis said. Their words, he added, contain ‘the wisdom of God’ and should never be ‘dismissed as ignorant.’
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