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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.

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If Anyone Feels Offended

Pope Francis

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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.

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If We Are Truly In Love With Christ And If We Sense How Much He Loves Us, Our Heart Will 'light Up' With A Joy That Spreads To Everyone Around Us.

If Evil Is Contagious, So Is Good:therefore, We Must Allow Good To Abound In Us, More And More;let Us Be Infected By Goodness, And Let Us Spread The Good Contagion.

Be Present To Those Who, Living In The Midst Of A Society Burdened By Poverty And Corruption, Are Broken In Spirit, Tempted To Give Up, To Leave School And To Live On The Streets.

It Is Necessary To Reaffirm Our Solid Opposition To Any Direct Offense Against Life, Especially When Innocent And Defenseless, And The Unborn Child In Its Mother's Womb Is The Quintessence Of Innocence. Let Us Remember The Words Of Vatican Council Ii: 'therefore From The Moment Of Its Conception Life Must Be Guarded With The Greatest Care While Abortion And Infanticide Are Unspeakable Crimes.'

The Alliance Of Love Between A Man And A Woman, An Alliance For Life, Cannot Be Improvised, And Is Not Made In A Day.

Life Rejuvenates And Acquires Energy When It Multiplies: It Is Enriched, Not Impoverished.

This Happens Today: If The Investments In The Banks Fall Slightly... A Tragedy... What Can Be Done? But If People Die Of Hunger, If They Have Nothing Eat, If They Have Poor Health, It Does Not Matter! This Is Our Crisis Today!

Economic Inequality

We Cannot Be Part-time Christians! We Should Seek To Live Our Faith At Every Moment Of Every Day.

I Am A Sinner. This Is The Most Accurate Definition. It Is Not A Figure Of Speech, A Literary Genre. I Am A Sinner.

Lord, Help Us To Live The Virtue Of Generosity, To Love Without Limits.

God Always Has Patience.

Having Patience

Charity, Patience And Tenderness Are Very Beautiful Gifts. If You Have Them, You Want To Share Them With Others.

The Root Of This Possibility Of Doing Good - That We All Have - Is In Creation.

Please Pray With Me For Everyone In Sri Lanka And The Philippines As I Begin My Trip.

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.

Embrace With Tender Affection The Whole Of Humanity, Especially The Poorest, The Weakest, The Least Important.

And Does Not True Freedom Mean Choosing Ways In This World That Lead To The Good Of All And Are Guided By Love?

I Believe That In Pretty Much Every Religion There Is Always A Small Group Of Fundamentalists.

Yes, Hypothetically, Western Catholicism Could Revise The Theme Of Celibacy. ... But For The Moment, I Am In Favor Of Maintaining Celibacy, With The Pros And The Cons It Has, Because We Have Ten Centuries Of More Good Experiences Than Bad Ones.

We Must Overcome...all Forms Of Racism. The Problem Of Intolerance Should Be Dealt With As A Whole: Every Time A Minority Is Persecuted And Marginalized...the Good Of The Whole Society Is In Danger.

It Is The Disease Of Cowards, Who Do Not Have The Courage To Speak Upfront And So Talk Behind One's Back... Watch Out Against The Terrorism Of Gossip!

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

If One Has The Answers To All The Questions - That Is The Proof That God Is Not With Him. It Means That He Is A False Prophet Using Religion For Himself. The Great Leaders Of The People Of God, Like Moses, Have Always Left Room For Doubt. You Must Leave Room For The Lord, Not For Our Certainties; We Must Be Humble.

It Is Better To Have A Church That Is Wounded But Out In The Streets Than A Church That Is Sick Because It Is Closed In On Itself.

Let Us Ask The Holy Spirit For The Grace To Live Daily According To The Mind Of Jesus And His Gospel.

Today In Many Places We Hear A Call For Greater Security. But Until Exclusion And Inequality In Society And Between Peoples Is Reversed, It Will Be Impossible To Eliminate Violence.

Pay Attention, My Young Friends: To Go Against The Current; This Is Good For The Heart, But We Need Courage To Swim Against The Tide. ... We Christians Were Not Chosen By The Lord For Little Things; Push Onwards Toward The Highest Principles. Stake Your Lives On Noble Ideals, My Dear Young People!

When One Lives Attached To Money, Pride Or Power, It Is Impossible To Be Truly Happy.

I Like To Say That Women Are Those Who Form Life In Their Wombs - And This Is A Comparison I Make - They Have This Charism Of Giving You Things You Can Build With.

The Lord Never Tires Of Forgiving. It Is We Who Tire Of Asking For Forgiveness.

In Imitation Of Our Master, We Christians Are Called To Confront The Poverty Of Our Brothers And Sisters, To Touch It, To Make It Our Own And To Take Practical Steps To Alleviate It.

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