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[orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, My Brother. We Kissed Each Other, Embraced, And Then A Conversation For Two Hours. Old Age Doesn't Come On Its Own.two Hours Where We Spoke As Brothers, Sincerely And No One Knows What Was Spoke About, Only What We Said At The End Publicly About How We Felt As We Spoke.

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[orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, My

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[orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, My Brother. We Kissed Each Other, Embraced, And Then A Conversation For Two Hours. Old Age Doesn't Come On Its Own.two Hours Where We Spoke As Brothers, Sincerely And No One Knows What Was Spoke About, Only What We Said At The End Publicly About How We Felt As We Spoke.

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It Is Not Possible To Go Backwards. We Must Go Forward. Always Forward.

Our Christian Identity Is Belonging To A People: The Church. Without The Church We Are Not Christians.

I Believe In The Old Warrior's Credo That "to The Victor Go The Spoils."

This Is What Marriage Is All About - Man And Woman Walking Together, Wherein The Husband Helps His Wife To Become Ever More A Woman, And Wherein The Woman Has The Task Of Helping Her Husband To Become Ever More A Man.

May Christ The Savior Give Peace To Nigeria, Where More Blood Is Being Shed And Too Many People Are Unjustly Deprived Of Their Possessions, Held As Hostages Or Killed.

To Protect Creation, To Protect Every Man And Every Woman, To Look Upon Them With Tenderness And Love Is To Open Up A Horizon Of Hope.

I Know Married Catholics In A Second Union Who Go To Church, Who Go To Church Once Or Twice A Year And Say I Want Communion, As If Joining In Communion Were An Award. It's A Work Towards Integration, All Doors Are Open, But We Cannot Say, 'from Here On They Can Have Communion.'

If Someone Is Gay And Seeks The Lord With Good Will, Who Am I To Judge?

Around Us There Is The Presence Of Evil. The Devil Is At Work. But In A Loud Voice I Say: God Is Stronger.

From My Point Of View, God Is The Light That Illuminates The Darkness, Even If It Does Not Dissolve It, And A Spark Of Divine Light Is Within Each Of Us.

Once Man Has Lost The Fundamental Orientation Which Unifies His Existence, He Breaks Down Into The Multiplicity Of His Desires; In Refusing To Await The Time Of Promise, His Life-story Disintegrates Into A Myriad Of Unconnected Instants.

Since Many Of You Do Not Belong To The Catholic Church And Others Are Non-believers, From The Bottom Of My Heart I Give This Silent Blessing To Each And Every One Of You, Respecting The Conscience Of Each One Of You But Knowing That Each One Of You Is A Child Of God.

How Often We Forget To Dedicate Ourselves To That Which Truly Matters! We Forget That We Are Children Of God.

There Is No Worse Material Poverty Than One That Does Not Allow For Earning One’s Bread And Deprives One Of The Dignity Of Work. Youth Unemployment, Informality, And The Lack Of Labor Rights Are Not Inevitable; They Are The Result Of A Previous Social Option, Of An Economic System That Puts Profit Above Man; If The Profit Is Economic, To Put It Above Humanity Or Above Man, Is The Effect Of A Disposable Culture That Considers The Human Being In Himself As A Consumer Good, Which Can Be Used And Then Discarded.

Dignity Of Work

The Philippines Bear Witness To The Youthfulness And Vitality Of The Church.

Our World Is Facing A Refugee Crisis Of A Magnitude Not Seen Since The Second World War. This Presents Us With Great Challenges And Many Hard Decisions.

When We Talk About The Environment, About Creation, My Thoughts Turn To The First Pages Of The Bible, The Book Of Genesis, Which States That God Placed Man And Woman On Earth To Cultivate And Care For It. And The Question Comes To My Mind: What Does Cultivating And Caring For The Earth Mean? Are We Truly Cultivating And Caring For Creation? Or Are We Exploiting And Neglecting It?

Don't Confuse The Evil Of Avoiding Pregnancy By Itself, With Abortion.

Pastors Must Welcome The Lost Sheep. Actually, I Made A Mistake. I Said Welcome, Rather, Go Out And Find Them.

Being A Disciple Means Being Constantly Ready To Bring The Love Of Jesus To Others, And This Can Happen Unexpectedly And In Any Place: On The Street, In A City Square, During Work, On A Journey.

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