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Dear Friends, Let Us Not Forget The Flesh Of Christ Which Is In The Flesh Of Refugees: Their Flesh Is The Flesh Of Christ. It Is Also Your Task To Direct All The Institutions Working In The Area Of Forced Migration To New Forms Of Co-responsibility. This Phenomenon Is Unfortunately Constantly Spreading. Hence Your Task Is Increasingly Demanding In Order To Promote Tangible Responses Of Closeness, Journeying With People, Taking Into Account The Different Local Backgrounds.

-Pope Francis

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Pope Francis

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Dear Friends, Let Us Not Forget The Flesh Of Christ Which Is In The Flesh Of Refugees: Their Flesh Is The Flesh Of Christ. It Is Also Your Task To Direct All The Institutions Working In The Area Of Forced Migration To New Forms Of Co-responsibility. This Phenomenon Is Unfortunately Constantly Spreading. Hence Your Task Is Increasingly Demanding In Order To Promote Tangible Responses Of Closeness, Journeying With People, Taking Into Account The Different Local Backgrounds.

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When The Lord Wants To Give Us A Mission, Wants To Give Us A Task, He Prepares Us. He Prepares Us To Do It Well...what Is Important Is The Whole Journey By Which We Arrive At The Mission The Lord Entrusts To Us...when The Lord Gives A Mission, He Always Has Us Enter Into A Process, A Process Of Purification, A Process Of Discernment, A Process Of Obedience, A Process Of Prayer.

Love Makes Us Similar, It Creates Equality, It Breaks Down Walls And Eliminates Distances. God Did This With Us.

Let Us Never Forget That Authentic Power Is Service, Which Has Its Radiant Culmination On The Cross.

Concealing Or Denying Evil Is Like Allowing A Wound To Keep Bleeding Without Bandaging It.

Forgiveness, Dialogue, Reconciliation - These Are The Words Of Peace, In Beloved Syria, In The Middle East, In All The World.

Education, Work, And Access To Health Care For All Are Key Elements For Development And The Just Distribution Of Goods, For The Attainment Of Social Justice, For Membership In Society, And For Free And Responsible Participation In Political Life.

Jesus Is The Sun And Mary Is The Dawn Announcing His Rising.

For This The Gospel Offers Us A Serene Way Forward: Using The Three Languages Of The Mind, Heart And Hands - And To Use Them In Harmony. What You Think, You Must Feel And Put Into Effect. Your Information Comes Down To Your Heart And You Put It Into Practice. Harmoniously. What You Think, You Feel, And You Do. Feel What You Think And Feel What You Do. Do What You Think And What You Feel. The Three Languagesto Think. To Feel. To Do. And All In Harmony.

A Friendship With A Woman Is Not A Sin. (it's) A Friendship. A Romantic Relationship With A Woman Who Is Not Your Wife, That Is A Sin.

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It's Best To Not Confuse Optimism With Hope. Optimism Is A Psychological Attitude Toward Life. Hope Goes Further. It Is An Anchor That One Hurls Toward The Future, It's What Lets You Pull On The Line And Reach What You're Aiming For And Head In The Right Direction. Hope Is Also Theological: God Is There, Too.

Poverty Is Part Of The Natural Condition And That Is Bad Enough. But My Task Is To Prevent The Aggravation Of This Condition.

Faith Is Not A Light Which Scatters All Our Darkness, But A Lamp Which Guides Our Steps In The Night And Suffices For The Journey.

I Don't Know How Things Stand In The Thinking Of The Italian Parliament. The Pope Doesn't Get Mixed Up In Italian Politics.

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.

If My Good Friend Dr. Gasparri Says A Curse Word Against My Mother, He Can Expect A Punch. It's Normal. It's Normal.

The Son Of God Became Incarnate In The Souls Of Men To Instill The Feeling Of Brotherhood. All Are Brothers And All Children Of God.

There Is No Such Thing As Low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus Means Swimming Against The Tide, Renouncing Evil And Selfishness

You Have A Specific And Important Mission, That Of Keeping Alive The Relationship Between The Faith And The Cultures Of The Peoples To Whom You Belong. . . . [w]e Have To Follow Christ Along The Concrete Path Of Our Daily Lives So That He Can Transform Us.

We Are All Sinners. But God Heals Us With An Abundance Of Grace, Mercy And Tenderness

Christmas Celebrations Are Often Full Of Sound. It Would Be Good For Us To Make Room For Silence, To Hear The Voice Of Love.

Not All Muslims Are Violent, Not All Catholics Are Violent. It Is Like A Fruit Salad; There's Everything. There Are Violent Persons Of This Religion.

It Is Not 'progressive' To Try To Resolve Problems By Eliminating A Human Life.

We Are Far From The So Called 'end Of History,' Since The Conditions For A Sustainable And Peaceful Development Have Not Yet Been Adequately Articulated And Realized.

Politics Is A Noble Activity. We Should Revalue It, Practise It With Vocation And A Dedication That Requires Testimony, Martyrdom, That Is To Die For The Common Good.

Among Us, Who Is Above Must Be In Service Of The Others. This Doesn't Mean We Have To Wash Each Other's Feet Every Day, But We Must Help One Another.

Imagine, To Become A Priest There Are Eight Years Of Study And Preparation, And Then If After A While You Can't Do It, You Can Ask For A Dispensation, You Leave, And Everything Is Ok. On The Other Hand, To Make A Sacrament (marriage), Which Is For Your Whole Life, Three To Four Conferences...preparation For Marriage Is Very Important. It's Very, Very Important Because I Believe It Is Something That In The Church, In Common Pastoral Ministry, At Least In My Country, In South America, The Church Has Not Valued Much.

We Cannot Insist Only On Issues Related To Abortion, Gay Marriage And The Use Of Contraceptive Methods. The Teaching Of The Church, For That Matter, Is Clear And I Am A Son Of The Church, But It Is Not Necessary To Talk About These Issues All The Time.

I Want The Church To Go Out Onto The Streets, I Want Us To Resist Everything Worldly, Everything Static, Everything Comfortable...eve Rything That Might Make Us Closed In On Ourselves.

Gratitude Is A Flower That Blooms In Noble Souls.

To Be Friends With God Means To Pray With Simplicity, Like Children Talking To Their Parents.

I Don’t Know If It Is All (man’s Fault) But The Majority Is, For The Most Part, It Is Man Who Continuously Slaps Down Nature.

The Media Only Writes About The Sinners And The Scandals, He Said, But That's Normal, Because 'a Tree That Falls Makes More Noise Than A Forest That Grows.

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