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Some People Continue To Defend Trickle-down Theories Which Assume That Economic Growth, Encouraged By A Free Market, Will Inevitably Succeed In Bringing About Greater Justice And Inclusiveness In The World. This Opinion, Which Has Never Been Confirmed By The Facts, Expresses A Crude And Naive Trust In The Goodness Of Those Wielding Economic Power And In The Sacralized Workings Of The Prevailing Economic System.

-Pope Francis

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Some People Continue To Defend Trickle-down Theories Which Assume That Economic Growth, Encouraged By A Free Market, Will Inevitably Succeed In Bringing About Greater Justice And Inclusiveness In The World. This Opinion, Which Has Never Been Confirmed By The Facts, Expresses A Crude And Naive Trust In The Goodness Of Those Wielding Economic Power And In The Sacralized Workings Of The Prevailing Economic System.

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We Cannot Sleep Peacefully While Babies Are Dying Of Hunger And The Elderly Are Without Medical Assistance

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

Sometimes We Are Saddened By The Weight Of Our Sins. May We Not Be Discouraged. Christ Has Come To Lift This Burden And Give Us Peace.

Be The First To Seek To Bring Good, Do Not Grow Accustomed To Evil, But Defeat It.

The Crucifix Does Not Signify Defeat Or Failure. It Reveals To Us The Love That Overcomes Evil And Sin.

I Want To Say One Word To You And This Word Is “joy”. Wherever There Are Consecrated People, Seminarians, Men And Women Religious, Young People, There Is Joy, There Is Always Joy!

Work Ends Up Dehumanizing People.

We Must Walk United With Our Differences: There Is No Other Way To Become One. This Is The Way Of Jesus.

We Cannot Keep Ourselves Shut Up In Parishes, In Our Communities, When So Many People Are Waiting For The Gospel!

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.

A Delicate Balance Is Required To Combat Violence Perpetrated In The Name Of A Religion, An Ideology Or An Economic System, While Also Safeguarding Religious Freedom, Intellectual Freedom And Individual Freedoms. But There Is Another Temptation Which We Must Especially Guard Against: The Simplistic Reductionism Which Sees Only Good Or Evil; Or, If You Will, The Righteous And Sinners.

The Great Danger In Today's World, Pervaded As It Is By Consumerism, Is The Desolation And Anguish Born Of A Complacent Yet Covetous Heart, The Feverish Pursuit Of Frivolous Pleasures, And A Blunted Conscience. Whenever Our Interior Life Becomes Caught Up In Its Own Interests And Concerns, There Is No Longer Room For Others, No Place For The Poor.

Only Those Who Serve With Love Are Able To Protect!

How Many Kinds Of Moral And Material Poverty We Face Today As A Result Of Denying God And Putting So Many Idols In His Place!

Dear Young People, Do Not Give Up Your Dreams Of A More Just World!

We Are All Missionary Disciples

More And More People Work On Sundays As A Consequence Of The Competitiveness Imposed By A Consumer Society.

Competitiveness

When Christians Forget About Hope And Tenderness They Become A Cold Church, That Loses Its Sense Of Direction And Is Held Back By Ideologies And Worldly Attitudes, Whereas God’s Simplicity Tells You: Go Forward, I Am A Father Who Caresses You.

Ask Yourselves This Question: How Often Is Jesus Inside And Knocking At The Door To Be Let Out, To Come Out?

It Seems Clear To Me Also That Climate Change Is A Problem Which Can No Longer Be Left To Our Future Generation.

To Live As True Children Of God Means To Love Our Neighbour And To Be Close To Those Who Are Lonely And In Difficulty

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

Every People Deserves To Conserve Its Identity Without Being Ideologically Colonised.

But You Too, Help One Another: Help One Another Always. One Another. In This Way, By Helping One Another, We Will Do Some Good.

Trade Unions Have Been An Essential Force For Social Change, Without Which A Semblance Of A Decent And Humane Society Is Impossible Under Capitalism.

While All Too Many People Live In Dire Poverty, Others Are Caught Up In Materialism And Lifestyles Which Are Destructive Of Family Life And The Most Basic Demands Of Christian Morality.

When We Don't Preach The Lord, We Preach The Devil, And When We Preach Worldliness, We Preach The Devil

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