Costs rise to 2 . 8 billion , and the project will take 2 and a half years . <| sep |> When you walk into a Villa Miseria in Buenos Aires you ' ll find that it ' s a place where only 25 % of people have electricity , 35 % of people have running water and functioning toilets , and kids spend their days walking around town collecting cardboard boxes to earn some cents , subsequently missing school as well as education at home because their home is a hut with no paved road . Still , the majority of these people are or at least define themselves as catholics . They pray to Jesus , to Mary , to their saint , just like we do . BUT they ' re crippled railroad workers , 14 year old pregnant girls , boys that steal because they ' ve been raped as little kids no clear relation but at the end of the day they have rough lives , and make other people ' s lives rougher , including mine . And then you have this Pope , who lived to see and experience this on a daily basis . He ' s a jesuit , he calls for a church by the poor and for the poor which I wasn ' t to thrilled about but that ' s the reality of the situation , then you start to understand why Francis finds it more important to console a 14 year old girl that got an abortion and that has no real family to take care of her , as opposed to say no , you can ' t be part of our church , you aborted . Of course we condemn divorce , abortion , premarital sex , drug use , breaking the comandments , but we always measure our church discipline with our circumstances . If we tried to put ourselves in their places , would you pray for the Church to include you despite your sins and missteps ? And before saying Oh , I would never fall into such misery because I would work hard and get myself out of there and blablabla . No , you wouldn ' t , there ' s so many people that are stuck where they are . Because of corrupt governments , because they don ' t have the means to save up to work their way out of poverty . It ' s a vicious circle , and the worst is that they ' re surrounded by their equals 247 , this is the only reality they know , and expect for themselves . Now , what do you do as a Pope ? Say we can pardon abortions and leave it to the Priests to judge on divorce , or say this is an exclusive club only for the people who have never aborted , divorced , stolen anything , raped , beaten elderly , blablanla . Not saying this is a definite answer . But the debate over mercy and how far it reaches is not as easy as black and white . Especially when so many of our catholic brothers and sisters are affected .