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A Way Has To Be Found To Enable Everyone To Benefit From The Fruits Of The Earth, And Not Simply To Close The Gap Between The Affluent And Those Who Must Be Satisfied With The Crumbs Falling From The Table, But Above All To Satisfy The Demands Of Justice, Fairness And Respect For Every Human Being.

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A Way Has To

Pope Francis

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A Way Has To Be Found To Enable Everyone To Benefit From The Fruits Of The Earth, And Not Simply To Close The Gap Between The Affluent And Those Who Must Be Satisfied With The Crumbs Falling From The Table, But Above All To Satisfy The Demands Of Justice, Fairness And Respect For Every Human Being.

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Capacity To Love

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Presence Of God

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If You Don’t Learn How To Cry, You Cannot Be A Good Christian. When They Posed This Question To Us – Why Children Suffer, Why This Or That Tragedy Occurs In Life – Our Response Must Be Either Silence Or A Word That Is Born Of Our Tears. Be Courageous, Don’t Be Afraid To Cry.

Maybe It's A Little Crazy, But It's Good To Have It, But I Just Don't Like [prizes Or Honors].

A Person Who Is Not Convinced, Enthusiastic, Certain And In Love, Will Convince Nobody.

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Changing The World

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The Culture Of Prosperity Deadens Us; We Are Thrilled If The Market Offers Us Something New To Purchase; And In The Meantime All Those Lives Stunted For Lack Of Opportunity Seem A Mere Spectacle; They Fail To Move Us.

Mary Is More Important Than The Apostles.

Men And Women Are Sacrificed To The Idols Of Profit And Consumption: It Is The 'culture Of Waste.' If A Computer Breaks It Is A Tragedy, But Poverty, The Needs And Dramas Of So Many People End Up Being Considered Normal. ... When The Stock Market Drops 10 Points In Some Cities, It Constitutes A Tragedy. Someone Who Dies Is Not News, But Lowering Income By 10 Points Is A Tragedy! In This Way People Are Thrown Aside As If They Were Trash.

Human Beings Are Themselves Considered Consumer Goods To Be Used And Then Discarded. We Have Created A 'disposable' Culture Which Is Now Spreading. It Is No Longer Simply About Exploitation And Oppression, But Something New.

Christians Are Those Who Let God Clothe Them With Goodness And Mercy, With Christ, So As To Become, Like Christ, Servants Of God And Others.

Sometimes It Is Possible To Live Without Knowing Our Neighbours: This Is Not Christian

You May Be Asking Yourselves, 'who Is This Man Standing Before Us?' I Would Like To Reply To That Question With Something Absolutely Certain About My Own Life: The Man Standing Before You Is A Man Who Has Been Forgiven. A Man Who Was, And Is, Saved From His Many Sins.

We Cannot Be Christians Part-time. If Christ Is At The Center Of Our Lives, He Is Present In All That We Do.

I Entrust This Twenty-second World Day Of The Sick To The Intercession Of Mary. I Ask Her To Help The Sick To Bear Their Sufferings In Fellowship With Jesus Christ And To Support All Those Who Care For Them. To All The Ill, And To All The Health-care Workers And Volunteers Who Assist Them, I Cordially Impart My Apostolic Blessing.

It Is Now, More Than Ever, Necessary That Political Leaders Be Outstanding For Honesty, Integrity And Commitment To The Common Good.

No One Listens Willingly To Someone Who Speaks To Them From A Position Of Self-righteousness And Judgment. Again And Again In The Gospels, Jesus Reserves His Harshest Words For Those Who Ignore Their Own Weakness In Order To Lord It Over Others.

The Roman Curia Has Its Defects, But It Seems To Me That People Often Overemphasize Its Defects And Talk Too Little About The Health Of The Many Religious And Laypeople Who Work There.

The Thing The Church Needs Most Today Is The Ability To Heal Wounds And To Warm The Hearts Of The Faithful.

If Anyone Feels Offended By My Words, I Would Respond That I Speak Them With Affection And With The Best Of Intentions, Quite Apart From Any Personal Interest Or Political Ideology. My Words Are Not Those Of A Foe Or An Opponent. I Am Interested Only In Helping Those Who Are In Thrall To An Individualistic, Indifferent And Self-centred Mentality To Be Freed From Those Unworthy Chains And To Attain A Way Of Living And Thinking Which Is More Humane, Noble And Fruitful, And Which Will Bring Dignity To Their Presence On This Earth.

It Is My Hope That Inter-religious And Ecumenical Cooperation Will Demonstrate That Men And Women Do Not Have To Forsake Their Identity, Whether Ethnic Or Religious, In Order To Live In Harmony With Their Brothers And Sisters. If We Are Honest In Presenting Our Convictions, We Will Be Able To See More Clearly What We Hold In Common.

Please Do Not Lose The Ability To Dream

To Imitate The Hatred And Violence Of Tyrants And Murderers Is The Best Way To Take Their Place.

Congress And The President

How Powerful Prayer Is! May We Never Lose The Courage To Say: Lord, Give Us Your Peace.

May The God Of Peace Arouse In All An Authentic Desire For Dialogue And Reconciliation. Violence Cannot Be Overcome With Violence. Violence Is Overcome With Peace.

Let Us Learn To Live With Kindness, To Love Everyone, Even When They Do Not Love Us.

The Earth Is Our Environment To Protect And The Garden To Tend To.

God Loves Us. May We Discover The Beauty Of Loving And Being Loved.

Being Christian Without The Church Doesn't Make Sense. That's Why The Great Paul Vi, Said That The Most Absurd Dichotomy Is Loving Christ Without The Church. To Listen To Christ, But Not The Church. To Be With Christ, But Stay At The Margins Of The Church. It's Not Possible. It's An Absurd Dichotomy.

Just As We Need The Courage To Be Happy, We Also Need The Courage To Live Simply.

Let Us Pray For Peace: Peace In The World And In Each Of Our Hearts.

May We Try To Listen And Be Silent In Order To Make Space For The Beauty Of God.

It Is Difficult To Judge The Past By The Criteria Of The Present.

We Christians Bring Peace And Grace As A Treasure To Be Offered To The World, But These Gifts Can Bear Fruit Only When Christians Live And Work Together In Harmony. This Makes It Easier To Contribute To Building Relations Of Respect And Peaceful Coexistence With Those Who Belong To Other Religious Traditions, And With Non-believers.

Why Is It Taken For Granted That Women Should Earn Less Than Men? No! They Have The Same Rights.

Fasting Makes Sense If It Really Chips Away At Our Security And, As A Consequence, Benefits Someone Else, If It Helps Us Cultivate The Style Of The Good Samaritan, Who Bent Down To His Brother In Need And Took Care Of Him.

If You Withdraw Into Yourself, You Run The Risk Of Becoming Egocentric. And Stagnant Water Becomes Putrid.

During Lent, Let Us Find Concrete Ways To Overcome Our Indifference.

Reject All Forms Of Corruption That Divert Resources From The Poor

Soccer Must Play A Socio-cultural Role. We Reach 1.6 Billion People, Thanks To The Positive Emotions That Soccer Triggers, Fifa Is More Influential Than Any Country On Earth And Any Religion. We Move Masses. We Want To Use That To Create More Peace, Justice And Health In The World.

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