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People Have To Struggle To Live And, Frequently, To Live In An Undignified Way. One Cause Of This Situation, In My Opinion, Is In The Our Relationship With Money, And Our Acceptance Of Its Power Over Ourselves And Our Society.

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People Have To Struggle

Pope Francis

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People Have To Struggle To Live And, Frequently, To Live In An Undignified Way. One Cause Of This Situation, In My Opinion, Is In The Our Relationship With Money, And Our Acceptance Of Its Power Over Ourselves And Our Society.

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Abortion Is Without A Doubt One Of The Greatest Moral Evils Within Modernity. As The "advocate Of Christian Memory," A Pope Must Take Up The Mantle Of Defending The Culture Of Life - A Defense The Early Church Held Against The Pagans Of Rome.

Proclaim The Beauty And Truth Of The Christian Message To A Society Which Is Tangent By Confusing Presentations Of Sexuality, Marriage And The Family.

When You Lose The Capacity To Dream, You Lose The Capacity To Love, And The Energy To Love Is Lost.

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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.

In This System, Which Tends To Devour Everything Which Stands In The Way Of Increased Profits, Whatever Is Fragile, Like The Environment, Is Defenseless Before The Interests Of A Deified Market, Which Become The Only Rule.

I Would Like To Ask You A Question: How Many Of You Pray To The Holy Spirit Every Day? Probably Few, But We Must Satisfy This Desire Of Jesus And Pray Every Day To The Holy Spirit, So That He Opens Our Heart Towards Jesus.

You May Be Poor Yourselves In Material Ways, But You Have An Abundance Of Gifts To Offer When You Offer Christ And The Community Of His Church.

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.

The Koran Is A Book Of Peace, It Is A Prophetic Book Of Peace.

The Lord Put It Clearly: You Cannot Serve Two Masters. You Have To Choose Between God And Money.

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