In his speech in Varginha, Pope Francis
mentioned that one of his aims in the Papacy is

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TEXT    RIO DE JANEIRO — Pope Francis on Thursday
delivered some of his most politically provocative
remarks since his papacy began this year, hopping
from his popemobile to walk through a slum in this
city before urging young people to fight against
corruption, a leading grievance behind the huge
street protests that shook dozens of Brazilian cities
in June.
    “Do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat
it,” Francis said at the favela, or slum, of Varginha,
in an area that has commonly been known here as
the Gaza Strip for its gun battles and drug trafficking
in the past. “Do not lose trust, do not allow your
hope to be extinguished,” he added, acknowledging
that it was common for some to “grow disillusioned
with news of corruption.”
    By singling out corruption in a folksy visit to a
Brazilian favela on his first trip abroad as pope,
Francis, an Argentine-born Jesuit, emphasized his
aim to refocus the Roman Catholic Church on the
neglected margins of society, especially in Brazil and
other parts of Latin America where the popularity of
evangelical churches has surged among the poor in
recent decades.
    In a nod to the Brazilian political authorities
who have warmly welcomed him, Francis also
praised the government’s antipoverty programs and
did not specifically mention the anti-establishment
protests in Brazil. But he did critique Rio de Janeiro’s
so-called pacification project in the city’s slums, in
which security forces assert control over lawless
areas.
    “No amount of pacification will be able to last,
nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a
society that ignores, pushes to the margins or
excludes a part of itself,” the pope said in Varginha,
a slum that has recently been subjected to
pacification. In a remark that could resonate in Latin
America and in the United States, which is also
grappling with the widening disparity between the
haves and the have-nots, Francis said that a society
“impoverishes itself” by perpetuating such
inequality.
    Care for the poor and marginalized is an
integral part of Catholic teaching, and a concern of
many popes and encyclicals, including those by
Francis’ predecessor, Benedict XVI. But Francis has
made it a hallmark of his young papacy, telling
journalists in Rome days after his election, “How I
would like a church that is poor and for the poor.”
He has demonstrated that ideal by living relatively
humbly as pope: in a communal guesthouse rather
than the opulent papal apartment, wearing a
pectoral cross of iron instead of gold, flying
commercial. He recently told priests that they should
not drive fancy cars, and he has traveled around Rio
this week in a compact Fiat.
    “He is helping to wake people up,” said Natalia
Morais, 21, a nursing student from Minas Gerais
State who traveled to Rio to see the pope as part of World Youth Day, a conference attended by
hundreds of thousands of Catholic youth. “When the
pope talks, political leaders listen, and that’s what’s
needed in Brazil, where our protests are about their
corruption,” Ms. Morais said.
    Reaching beyond Brazil, Francis told
Argentines who came here for the conference that
“the church must be taken into the streets” in a
struggle against complacency. “Stir things up, cause
confounding, but do not diminish faith in Jesus
Christ,” he said in Spanish.
    In each of Francis’ public appearances, he has
been accorded a rock-star reception. On an
uncommonly cold and rainy morning, hundreds of
residents lined the narrow, muddy sidewalks of the
Varginha favela to glimpse the first pope from the
Americas, who obliged by stopping often to touch
and bless people.
    Many onlookers had made their own shirts to
commemorate the event, with a photo of Francis.
Others draped themselves in Brazilian flags and
waved banners bearing his image. Residents darted
in and out of their homes, checking their televisions
and radios to learn the pope’s whereabouts and
calling the information out to their neighbors
standing on wet rooftops to get a better view.
    Sônia Curato, 48, a manicurist, said the
pope’s visit was different from that of other leaders.
“Politicians come all the time. They make promises
and leave,” she said. “He is a very simple person.
You can tell that. He has charisma. He speaks to the
people, doesn’t like going around in an armored
car.”
By Simon Romero and Taylor Barnes
Published: July 25, 2013
www.nytimes.com In his speech in Varginha, Pope Francis
mentioned that one of his aims in the Papacy is  Alternativa A: refocusing the Roman Catholic Church on the
forgotten part of society. Ou Alternativa B: bringing more children to Catholic schools. Ou Alternativa C: building more communal guesthouses in the Vatican. Ou Alternativa D: extinguishing gun-battles in the Gaza Strip.

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Alternativa [A] refocusing the Roman Catholic Church on the
forgotten part of society. Gabarito: AFundamento decisivo: A resposta decorre da identificação explícita do trecho “Francis, an Argentine-born Jesuit, emphasized his aim to refocus the Roman Catholic Church on the neglected margins of society”, que corresponde à formulação da alternativa A.Tema central: objetivo declarado do papadoAnálise das alternativasACertaA alternativa A está correta porque corresponde semanticamente ao trecho expresso no texto: “refocus the Roman Catholic Church on the neglected margins of society”. O núcleo do objetivo é redirecionar a atenção da Igreja para os grupos socialmente marginalizados ou negligenciados. A formulação “forgotten part of society” é uma paráfrase fiel de “neglected margins of society”, sem acrescentar nem distorcer o conteúdo.BErradaIncorreta por introduzir informação inexistente no texto. Não há menção a objetivo do papado ligado a levar mais crianças para escolas católicas. A eliminação decorre de confronto direto com o texto, que trata de foco da Igreja nos marginalizados, e não de política educacional escolar.CErradaIncorreta porque confunde um detalhe descritivo sobre o estilo de vida do papa com um objetivo institucional do papado. O texto menciona que ele vive em “a communal guesthouse rather than the opulent papal apartment” como sinal de simplicidade pessoal; não afirma projeto de construir mais guesthouses nem apresenta isso como uma de suas metas.DErradaIncorreta por erro de referente e por extrapolação. No texto, “Gaza Strip” é um apelido local de uma área de Varginha, associado a seu histórico de violência, e não o território real do Oriente Médio. Além disso, o texto não declara como objetivo do papado “extinguishing gun-battles”; essa formulação não é afirmada.Pegadinha da questãoA banca combina três confusões reais: troca o trecho correto por uma paráfrase na alternativa certa, usa em C uma informação verdadeira do texto mas sem relação com o que foi perguntado, e em D explora a leitura literal indevida de “Gaza Strip”, que no texto é apenas um apelido local.Dica para questões semelhantesQuando a pergunta pedir objetivo, localize no texto expressões como “aim” ou formulações equivalentes antes de comparar as alternativas.Reconheça paráfrase semântica fiel como resposta correta quando ela reproduzir a ideia central do trecho.Elimine alternativas que usem detalhes reais do texto, mas mudem sua função: descrição pessoal não vira meta institucional.Controle o referente de nomes e expressões do texto para não tomar apelido, metáfora ou contexto local como referência literal externa.

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