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[t]he "home" Represents The Most Precious Human Treasures, That Of Encounter, That Of Relations Among People, Different In Age, Culture And History, But Who Live Together And Together Help One Another To Grow. For This Reason, The "home" Is A Crucial Place In Life, Where Life Grows And Can Be Fulfilled, Because It Is A Place In Which Every Person Learns To Receive Love And To Give Love.

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[t]he "home" Represents The Most Precious Human Treasures, That Of Encounter, That Of Relations Among People, Different In Age, Culture And History, But Who Live Together And Together Help One Another To Grow. For This Reason, The "home" Is A Crucial Place In Life, Where Life Grows And Can Be Fulfilled, Because It Is A Place In Which Every Person Learns To Receive Love And To Give Love.

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For Just As Some People Want A Purely Spiritual Christ, Without Flesh And Without The Cross, They Also Want Their Interpersonal Relationships Provided By Sophisticated Equipment, By Screens And Systems Which Can Be Turned On And Off On Command. Meanwhile, The Gospel Tells Us Constantly To Run The Risk Of A Face-to-face Encounter With Others, With Their Physical Presence Which Challenges Us, With Their Pain And Their Pleas, With Their Joy Which Infects Us In Our Close And Continuous Interaction.

The Cross Isn't An Ornament, Mere Symbol. It's The Mystery Of God's Love, That He Died For Our Sins.

If The Christian Is A Restorationist, A Legalist, If He Wants Everything Clear And Safe, Then He Will Find Nothing. Tradition And Memory Of The Past Must Help Us To Have The Courage To Open Up New Areas To God.

We Face So Many Challenges In Life: Poverty, Distress, Humiliation, The Struggle For Justice, Persecutions, The Difficulty Of Daily Conversion, The Effort To Remain Faithful To Our Call To Holiness, And Many Others. But If We Open The Door To Jesus And Allow Him To Be Part Of Our Lives, If We Share Our Joys And Sorrows With Him, Then We Will Experience The Peace And Joy That Only God, Who Is Infinite Love, Can Give.

This Is Important: To Get To Know People, Listen, Expand The Circle Of Ideas. The World Is Crisscrossed By Roads That Come Closer Together And Move Apart, But The Important Thing Is That They Lead Towards The Good.

From The Way Children Are Treated Society Can Be Judged.

The Christian Life Is Not Limited To Prayer, But Requires An Ongoing Dedication And Courage Born Of Prayer.

I Have Neither Silver Nor Gold, But I Bring With Me The Most Precious Thing Given To Me: Jesus Christ.

A Way Has To Be Found To Enable Everyone To Benefit From The Fruits Of The Earth, And Not Simply To Close The Gap Between The Affluent And Those Who Must Be Satisfied With The Crumbs Falling From The Table, But Above All To Satisfy The Demands Of Justice, Fairness And Respect For Every Human Being.

The Moral Problem Of Abortion Is Of A Pre Religious Nature Because The Genetic Code Is Written In A Person At The Moment Of Conception. A Human Being Is There. I Separate The Topic Of Abortion From Any Specifically Religious Notions. It Is A Scientific Problem. Not To Allow The Further Development Of A Being Which Already Has All The Genetic Code Of A Human Being Is Not Ethical. The Right To Life Is The First Among Human Rights. To Abort A Child Is To Kill Someone Who Cannot Defend Himself.

Vanity, Showing Off, Is An Attitude That Reduces Spirituality To A Worldly Thing, Which Is The Worst Sin That Could Be Committed In The Church.

The Church Of Rome, The Pope Has Always Said, 'seek Peace.'

May We Try To Listen And Be Silent In Order To Make Space For The Beauty Of God.

If We Live According To The Law "an Eye For An Eye...," We Will Never Escape From The Spiral Of Evil.

Today Too, Amid So Much Darkness, We Need To See The Light Of Hope And To Be Men And Women Who Bring Hope To Others.

Inequality Is The Root Of Social Evil.

The Key Phrase Used By The Synod, Which I'll Take Up Again, Is 'integrate' In The Life Of The Church The Wounded Families, Remarried Families, Etc. But Of This One Mustn't Forget The Children In The Middle. They Are The First Victims, Both In The Wounds, And In The Conditions Of Poverty, Of Work.

I Read Little, I Just Glance Through One Newspaper. Just 15 Minutes.

Dear Young People, Please, Don’t Be Observers Of Life, But Get Involved. Jesus Did Not Remain An Observer, But He Immersed Himself. Don’t Be Observers, But Immerse Yourself In The Reality Of Life, As Jesus Did.

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.

For Every Christian, The Proclamation And Witnessing Of The Gospel Are Never An Isolated Act. This Is Important. For Every Christian The Proclamation And Witnessing Of The Gospel Are Never An Isolated Or Group Act, And No Evangelizers Acts, As Paul Vi Reminded Very Well, "on The Strength Of A Personal Inspiration, But In Union With The Mission Of The Church And In Her Name"

To Be Saints Is Not A Privilege For A Few, But A Vocation For Everyone.

Where There Is Truth, There Is Also Light, But Don't Confuse Light With The Flash.

Once Elected, The Pope Is By Virtue Of The Promise Of Jesus To Peter, The Pope Is Preserved From The Possibility Of Error. God Would Change Any Spend Thrift Politician Into A Responsible Pope.

The Sacraments Are Jesus Christ’s Presence In Us. So It Is Important For Us To Go To Confession And Receive Holy Communion.

Do Not Be Afraid To Dream Great Things!

Going Out To Others In Order To Reach The Fringes Of Humanity Does Not Mean Rushing Out Aimlessly Into The World. Often It Is Better Simply To Slow Down, To Put Aside Our Eagerness In Order To See And Listen To Others, To Stop Rushing From One Thing To Another And To Remain With Someone Who Has Faltered Along The Way.

Politics Is The Most Important Of The Civil Activities And Has Its Own Field Of Action, Which Is Not That Of Religion.

Mercy Is The True Power That Can Save Humanity And The World From Sin And Evil.

Let Us Not Be Satisfied With A Mediocre Life.

It Is The Paraclete Spirit, The "comforter", Who Grants Us The Courage To Take To The Streets Of The World, Bringing The Gospel! The Holy Spirit Makes Us Look To The Horizon And Drive Us To The Very Outskirts Of Existence In Order To Proclaim Life In Jesus Christ. Let Us Ask Ourselves: Do We Tend To Stay Closed In On Ourselves, On Our Group, Or Do We Let The Holy Spirit Open Us To Mission?

Amid So Many Problems, Even Grave, May We Not Lose Our Hope In The Infinite Mercy Of God.

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

In The Moment Of Hardship, We Ask Why Some Things Happen. In Those Moments Of Suffering, Questioning Prayers That Do Not Ask For Explanations But Beg The Lord To Accompany Us Are The Most Useful

The Love Of Christ Fills Our Hearts And Makes Us Always Able To Forgive!

A Person Once Asked Me, In A Provocative Manner, If I Approved Of Homosexuality. I Replied With Another Question: 'tell Me: When God Looks At A Gay Person, Does He Endorse The Existence Of This Person With Love, Or Reject And Condemn This Person?' We Must Always Consider The Person.

When We Are Generous In Welcoming People And Sharing Something With Them-some Food, A Place In Our Homes, Our Time-not Only Do We No Longer Remain Poor: We Are Enriched.

It Is True That Going Out On To The Street Implies The Risk Of Accidents Happening, As They Would To Any Ordinary Man Or Woman. But If The Church Stays Wrapped Up In Itself, It Will Age. And If I Had To Choose Between A Wounded Church That Goes Out On To The Streets And A Sick, Withdrawn Church, I Would Definitely Choose The First One.

We Could Also Say That There Is Only One Real Kind Of Poverty: Not Living As Children Of God And Brothers And Sisters Of Christ.

Jesus Is Not A Figure From The Past: He Continues Now And Always To Light The Way For Us.

My People Are Poor And I Am One Of Them.

Today We Celebrate Earth Day. I Exhort Everyone To See The World Through The Eyes Of God The Creator: The Earth Is An Environment To Be Safeguarded, A Garden To Be Cultivated. The Relationship Of Mankind With Nature Must Not Be Conducted With Greed, Manipulation And Exploitation, But It Must Conserve The Divine Harmony That Exists Between Creatures And Creation Within The Logic Of Respect And Care, So It Can Be Put To The Service Of Our Brothers, Also Of Future Generations.

If We Want Security, Let Us Give Security; If We Want Life, Let Us Give Life; If We Want Opportunities, Let Us Provide Opportunities. The Yardstick We Use For Others Will Be The Yardstick Which Time Will Use For Us.

We Ask Ourselves And Each Of Us May Wonder: Does The Lord Feel Truly At Home In My Life? Do We Allow Him To Do A 'cleansing' In Our Hearts And To Drive Out The Idols, Those Attitudes Of Greed, Jealousy, Worldliness, Envy And Hatred, That Habit Of Gossiping And Tearing Down Others?

Are We Ready To Be Christians Full-time, Showing Our Commitment By Word And Deed?

One Cannot Offend, Make War, Kill In The Name Of One's Own Religion, That Is, In The Name Of God.

Do Not Be Afraid To Help One Another. The Devil Is Looking For Rivalry, Division, Gangs. Keep Working To Make Progress ... I Have Seen How Pain Does Not Stifle The Hope Deep Within The Human Heart And How Life Goes On, Finding New Strength Even In The Midst Of Difficulties.

Lent Is A Time Of Grace, A Time To Convert And Live Out Our Baptism Fully.

We, The Women And Men Of The Church, We Are In The Middle Of A Love Story: Each Of Us Is A Link In This Chain Of Love. And If We Do Not Understand This, We Have Understood Nothing Of What The Church Is.

Jesus Receives Us With All Of Our Limitations, He Bring Us The Mercy Of The Father Who Forgives Us, And Transforms Our Heart, Rendering It A New Heart, Capable Of Loving Him, Who Loved His Own To The End (cf. John 13:1). And This Love Is Manifested In His Mercy. Jesus Always Forgives Us.

The Imposition Of Anomalous Models And Lifestyles Are Alien To People's Identity And, In The End, Are Irresponsible.

Peacemaking Calls For Courage, Much More So Than Warfare.

Wars Shatter So Many Lives. I Think Especially Of Children Robbed Of Their Childhood.

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

We Cannot Become Starched Christians, Too Polite, Who Speak Of Theology Calmly Over Tea. We Have To Become Courageous Christians And Seek Out Those (who Need Help Most).

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War Is Not To Be Waged In The Name Of God.

The Whole Journey Of Life Is A Journey Of Preparation... To See, To Feel, To Understand The Beauty Of What Lies Ahead, Of The Homeland Towards Which We Walk.

Today, The News Is Scandals, That Is News, But The Many Children Who Don’t Have Food - That’s Not News. This Is Grave. We Can’t Rest Easy While Things Are This Way.

We Can Study The Whole History Of Salvation, We Can Study The Whole Of Theology, But Without The Spirit We Cannot Understand. It Is The Spirit That Makes Us Realize The Truth Or - In The Words Of Our Lord - It Is The Spirit That Makes Us Know The Voice Of Jesus.

That Is Why The Center Of Our Faith Isn't Just A Book, But A History Of Salvation, And Above All, It's About A Person: Jesus Christ, The Word Of God Made Flesh.

Do Not Be Afraid Of What God Asks Of You! It Is Worth Saying 'yes' To God. In Him We Find Joy.

Your Sins Are Great? Just Tell The Lord: Forgive Me, Help Me To Get Up Again, Change My Heart!

I Invite [journalists] To Seriously Study The Facts Of Guadalupe. The Madonna Is There. I Cannot Find Another Explanation.

This Is Christian Hope, That The Future Is In God's Hands.

We Must Recover The Whole Sense Of Gift, Of Gratuitousness, Of Solidarity. Rampant Capitalism Has Taught The Logic Of Profit At All Costs, Of Giving To Get, Of Exploitation Without Looking At The Person... And We See The Results In The Crisis We Are Experiencing! This Home Is A Place That Teaches Charity, A "school" Of Charity, Which Instructs Me To Go Encounter Every Person, Not For Profit, But For Love.

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

In My Own Experience, Including When I Ask For Advice, I Would Ask A Collaborator, A Friend, I Also Like To Hear The Opinion Of A Woman Because They Have Such Wealth. They Look At Things In A Different Way.

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.

There Is Another Important Point: Encountering The Poor. If We Step Outside Ourselves We Find Poverty. Today-it Sickens The Heart To Say So-the Discovery Of A Tramp Who Has Died Of The Cold Is Not News. Today What Counts As News Is, Maybe, A Scandal. A Scandal: Ah, That Is News! Today, The Thought That A Great Many Children Do Not Have Food To Eat Is Not News. This Is Serious, This Is Serious! We Cannot Put Up With This! Yet That Is How Things Are. We Cannot Become Starched Christians, Those Over-educated Christians Who Speak Of Theological Matters As They Calmly Sip Their Tea.

If I Speak Of Islamic Violence, I Must Speak Of Catholic Violence.

Each Of Us Has A Vision Of Good And Of Evil. We Have To Encourage People To Move Towards What They Think Is Good... Everyone Has His Own Idea Of Good And Evil And Must Choose To Follow The Good And Fight Evil As He Conceives Them. That Would Be Enough To Make The World A Better Place.

Jesus Is God But He Humbled Himself To Walk With Us. He Is Our Friend, Our Brother.

The World Tells Us To Seek Success, Power And Money; God Tells Us To Seek Humility, Service And Love.

The Blood Of Our Christian Brothers Is A Witness That Cries Out..if They Are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, It Is Not Important : They Are Christians. The Blood Is The Same: It Is The Blood Which Confesses Christ.

Instead Of Seeming To Impose New Obligations, They Should Appear As People Who Wish To Share Their Joy, Who Point To A Horizon Of Beauty And Who Invite Others To A Delicious Banquet. It Is Not By Proselytizing That The Church Grows, But By Attraction.

The Obsession With Economic Profit And Technical Efficiency Puts The Human Rhythms Of Life At Risk.

Life Once Conceived, Must Be Protected With The Utmost Care; Abortion And Infanticide Are Abominable Crimes.

The Saints Were Not Superhuman. They Were People Who Loved God In Their Hearts, And Who Shared This Joy With Others.

Today, We Need A Church Capable Of Walking At People's Side, Of Doing More Than Simply Listening To Them.... At Times We Lose People Because They Don't Understand What We Are Saying, Because We Have Forgotten The Language Of Simplicity And Import An Intellectualism Foreign To Our People.... We Cannot Keep Ourselves Shut Up In Parishes, In Our Communities, When So Many People Are Waiting For The Gospel.

Let Us Build Our Lives Of Faith On The Rock Who Is Christ.

Let Us Not Forget This Word: God Never Ever Tires Of Forgiving Us!

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.

God's Image Is The Married Couple, A Man And Women, Together. Not Just The Man. Not Just The Woman. No, Both Of Them. That's God's Image.

To Imitate The Hatred And Violence Of Tyrants And Murderers Is The Best Way To Take Their Place.

Congress And The President

I Ask All People Of Goodwill To Help Build A Culture Of Encounter, Solidarity And Peace

All Revealed Truths Derive From The Same Divine Source And Are To Be Believed With The Same Faith, Yet Some Of Them Are More Important For Giving Direct Expression To The Heart Of The Gospel. In This Basic Core, What Shines Forth Is The Beauty Of The Saving Love Of God Made Manifest In Jesus Christ Who Died And Rose From The Dead.

Prayer, Humility, And Charity Toward All Are Essential In The Christian Life: They Are The Way To Holiness.

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

Even Today, After The Second Failure Of Another World War, Perhaps One Can Speak Of A Third War, One Fought Piecemeal, With Crimes, Massacres, Destruction.

I Extend My Appreciation To The Associations, Movements And All Those Who Defend Human Life.

Please Do Not Lose The Ability To Dream

A Person Who Thinks Only About Building Walls, Wherever They May Be, And Not Building Bridges, Is Not Christian. This Is Not In The Gospel.

I Think We Too Are The People Who, On The One Hand, Want To Listen To Jesus, But On The Other Hand, At Times, Like To Find A Stick To Beat Others With, To Condemn Others. And Jesus Has This Message For Us: Mercy. I Think - And I Say It With Humility - That This Is The Lord's Most Powerful Message: Mercy.

In This Case [the Charlemagne Prize], I Don't Say (i Was) Forced, But Convinced By The Holy And Theological Headstrongness Of Cardinal [walter] Kasper, Because He Was Chosen, Elected By Aachen To Convince Me. And I Said Yes, But In The Vatican. And I Said I Offer It For Europe, As A Co-decoration For Europe, A Prize So That Europe May Do What I Desired At Strasburg; That It May No Longer Be "grandmother Europe" But "mother Europe."

It Occurs To Me: Why Is It Mainly Women, Who To Pass On The Faith? Simply Because The One Who Brought Us Jesus Is A Woman. It Is The Path Chosen By Jesus. He Wanted To Have A Mother: The Gift Of Faith Comes To Us Through Women, As Jesus Came To Us Through Mary.

Being A Christian Means Renouncing Ourselves, Taking Up The Cross And Carrying It With Jesus. There Is No Other Way.

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.

I Love Tango, And I Used To Dance When I Was Young.

Don't Be Afraid To Go To The Sacrament Of Confession, Where You Will Meet Jesus Who Forgives You.

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

The Church Is Called To Draw Near To Every Person, Beginning With The Poorest And Those Who Suffer.

Let's Pray For Whole World That There Be Brotherhood. I Hope This Journey Of The Church We Begin Today Is Fruitful For Evangelization.

Let Us Protect Christ In Our Lives, So That We Can Protect Others, So That We Can Protect Creation!

Can We Who Have Had The Joy Of Knowing That We Are Not Orphans, That We Have A Father, Be Indifferent To This City Which Asks Of Us, Perhaps Even Unwittingly, Without Being Aware Of It, A Hope That Will Help It Look To The Future With Greater Confidence And Serenity? We Cannot Remain Indifferent. . . . Words Without Witness Are Hot Air. Words Do Not Suffice. It Must Be The True Witness That Paul Speaks Of.

The Search For God Means Having The Courage To Set Out On A Risky Path, It Means Following Our Restless Hearts.

The Family Is The Greatest Treasure Of Any Country. Let Us All Work To Protect And Strengthen This, The Cornerstone Of Society.

Greatest Treasure

Work Is Fundamental To The Dignity Of A Person. . . . It Gives One The Ability To Maintain Oneself, One's Family, To Contribute To The Growth Of One's Own Nation.

During My Visit To The Philippines, I Wanted In A Particular Way To Meet With Young People, To Listen To You And To Talk To You. I Want To Express The Love And The Hopes Of The Church For You. And I Want To Encourage You As Christian Citizens Of This Country To Offer Yourselves Passionately And Honestly To The Great Work Of Renewing Your Society And Helping To Build A Better World.

I Would Like To Ask All Those Who Have Positions Of Responsibility In Economic, Political And Social Life, And All Men And Women Of Goodwill: Let Us Be 'protectors' Of Creation, Protectors Of God's Plan Inscribed In Nature, Protectors Of One Another And Of The Environment.

Religious Freedom Is A Fundamental Human Right.

Religious Freedom

We Must Not Be Afraid Of Solidarity; Rather Let Us Make All We Have And Are Available To God.

The Joy Of The Gospel Fills The Hearts And Lives Of All Who Encounter Jesus.

Living Holy Week Following Jesus Means Learning How To Come Out Of Ourselves To Reach Out To Others, To Go To The Outskirts Of Existence, To Be The First To Move Towards Our Brothers And Sisters, Especially Those Who Are Most Distant, Those Who Are Forgotten, Those Who Are Most In Need Of Understanding, Consolation And Help. There Is So Much Need To Bring The Living Presence Of Jesus, Merciful And Full Of Love!

It Is Important To Integrate Immigrants Into Society And To Welcome Them In The Church Community

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

How Many Of Us, Myself Included, Have Lost Our Bearings; We Are No Longer Attentive To The World In Which We Live; We Don’t Care; We Don’t Protect What God Created For Everyone, And We End Up Unable Even To Care For One Another.

Economic Inequality

Through Prayer, Charity And Humility Before God, People Receive A Heart Which Is Firm And Merciful, Attentive And Generous, A Heart Which Is Not Closed, Indifferent Or Prey To The Globalization Of Indifference.

This Is Ideological Colonization. They Colonize People With Ideas That Try To Change Mentalities Or Structures, But This Is Not New. This Was Done By The Dictatorships Of The Last Century.

May The Deepest Spiritual Values Of The Filipino People Continue To Find Expression In Your Efforts To Provide Your Fellow Citizens With An Integral Human Development. In This Way, Each Person Will Be Able To Fulfill His Or Her Potential, And Thus Contribute Wisely And Well To The Future Of This Country.

God Never Gives Someone A Gift They Are Not Capable Of Receiving. If He Gives Us The Gift Of Christmas, It Is Because We All Have The Ability To Understand And Receive It.

Terrorism Is Everywhere. You Think Of The Tribal Terrorism Of Some African Countries.

Humanity Needs Justice, Peace And Love And We Can Have This Only By Returning With Our Hearts Towards God Who Is The Source Of All This.

There Is An Ideological Colonization We Have To Be Careful Of That Tries To Destroy The Family.

The Perfect Family Doesn't Exist, Nor Is There A Perfect Husband Or A Perfect Wife, And Let's Not Talk About The Perfect Mother-in-law! It's Just Us Sinners. A Healthy Family Life Requires Frequent Use Of Three Phrases: "may I? Thank You, And I'm Sorry" And "never, Never, Never End The Day Without Making Peace."

I Like This Idea Of The Re-foundation Of The European Union, Maybe It Can Be Done, Because Europe - I Do Not Say Is Unique, But It Has A Force, A Culture, A History That Cannot Be Wasted, And We Must Do Everything So That The European Union Has The Strength And Also The Inspiration To Make It Go Forward.

At Times We Can Be Self-absorbed. Lord, Help Us To Open Our Hearts To Others And To Serve Those Who Are Most Vulnerable.

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

Fathers Are So Necessary As Examples And Guides For Our Children In Wisdom And Virtue. Without Father Figures, Young People Often Feel Orphaned; Left Adrift At A Critical Moment In Their Growth And Development.

We Have To State, Without Mincing Words, That There Is An Inseparable Bond Between Our Faith And The Poor. May We Never Abandon Them.

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.

If We, Each Doing Our Own Part, If We Do Good To Others, If We Meet There, Doing Good, And We Go Slowly, Gently, Little By Little, We Will Make That Culture Of Encounter: We Need That So Much. We Must Meet One Another Doing Good.

To The Criminals And All Their Accomplices, I, Today, Humbly And As A Brother, Repeat: Convert Yourselves To Love And Justice. It Is Possible To Return To Honesty. The Tears Of The Mothers Of Naples Are Asking This Of You.

Every Catholic Parliamentarian Must Vote According Their Well-formed Conscience. I Would Say Just This. I Believe It Is Sufficient Because - I Say Well-formed Because It Is Not The Conscience Of 'what Seems To Me.'

Today, This Selfish Attitude Of Indifference Has Taken On Global Proportions, To The Extent That We Can Speak Of A Globalization Of Indifference. It Is A Problem Which We, As Christians, Need To Confront.

In Our Ecclesiastical Region There Are Priests Who Don't Baptize The Children Of Single Mothers Because They Weren't Conceived In The Sanctity Of Marriage. These Are Today's Hypocrites. Those Who Clericalize The Church. Those Who Separate The People Of God From Salvation.

Living Together Is An Art. It's A Patient Art, It's A Beautiful Art, It's Fascinating.

Life Is A Journey. When We Stop, Things Don't Go Right.

Life Is A Journey

Lord, Help Us To Recognize You In The Sick, Poor And Suffering.

Each Encounter With Jesus Changes Our Life.

Every Child That Isn't Born, But Is Unjustly Condemned To Be Aborted, Has The Face Of Jesus Christ, Has The Face Of The Lord.

If Globalization Is A Sphere, Where Each Point Is Equidistant From The Centre, Then It Isn't Good Because It Annuls Each Of Us. But If Globalization Joins Us As A Polyhedron Where We're All Together But Conserves The Dignity Of Each ... That's Good.

Jesus Teaches Us To Put The Needs Of The Poor Ahead Of Our Own, Our Needs, Even If Legitimate, Will Never Be So Urgent As Those Of The Poor, Who Lack The Necessities Of Life.

There Are People Who Are Afraid To Go To Confession, Forgetting That They Will Not Encounter A Severe Judge There, But The Immensely Merciful Father.

Find New Ways To Spread The Word Of God To Every Corner Of The World.

Perhaps I Can Say That I Am A Bit Astute, That I Can Adapt To Circumstances, But It Is Also True That I Am A Bit Naive. Yes, But The Best Summary, The One That Comes More From The Inside And I Feel Most True Is This: I Am A Sinner Whom The Lord Has Looked Upon.

Giving Primacy To God Means Having The Courage To Say ‘no’ To Evil, ‘no’ To Violence, ‘no’ To Oppression, To Live A Life In Service Of Others And Which Fosters Lawfulness And The Common Good. When A Person Discovers God, The True Treasure, He Abandons A Selfish Lifestyle And Seeks To Share With Others The Charity Which Comes From God. He Who Becomes A Friend Of God, Loves His Brothers And Sisters, Commits Himself To Safeguarding Their Life And Their Health, And Also To Respecting The Environment And Nature.

It Also Happens To Me That When I Meet A Clericalist, I Suddenly Become Anti-clerical. Clericalism Should Not Have Anything To Do With Christianity. St. Paul, Who Was The First To Speak To The Gentiles, The Pagans, To Believers In Other Religions, Was The First To Teach Us That.

I Think Both Freedom Of Religion And Freedom Of Expression Are Both Fundamental Human Rights, Everyone Has Not Only The Freedom And The Right But The Obligation To Say What Pope Francis Thinks For The Common Good... We Have The Right To Have This Freedom Openly Without Offending.

The First Setting In Which Faith Enlightens The Human City Is The Family.

All Political Activity Must Serve And Promote The Good Of The Human Person And Be Based On Respect For His Or Her Dignity.

I Think That Even The Mexican Society Is A Victim Of All Of This, Of These Crimes Of "cleaning" People, Of Discarding People.

As Always, The Ones Who Aren't Saints Make The Most Noise...a Single Tree Falling Makes A Sound, But A Whole Forest Growing Doesn't.

On The Ordination Of Women, The Church Has Spoken And Said No. John Paul Ii, In A Definitive Formulation Said That Door Is Closed.

Let Jesus Preach To You, And And Let Jesus Heal You. We Are All Wounded. Everyone.

Faith Transforms The Whole Person Precisely To The Extent That He Or She Becomes Open To Love.

I Make A Forceful And Urgent Call To The Entire Catholic Church, And Also To Every Christian Of Other Confessions, As Well As To Followers Of Every Religion And To Those Brothers And Sisters Who Do Not Believe: Peace Is A Good Which Overcomes Every Barrier, Because It Belongs To All Of Humanity!

Certainly, Possessions, Money, And Power Can Give A Momentary Thrill, The Illusion Of Being Happy, But They End Up Possessing Us And Making Us Always Want To Have More, Never Satisfied. ‘put On Christ’ In Your Life, Place Your Trust In Him, And You Will Never Be Disappointed!

Peace Is Always Possible But We Have To Seek It. Let Us Pray For Peace.

We Need To Build Up Society In The Light Of The Beatitudes, Walking Towards The Kingdom With The Least Among Us.

First, We Can Pray In Communion With The Church On Earth And In Heaven. Let Us Not Underestimate The Power Of So Many Voices United In Prayer!

If We Live The Faith In Our Daily Life, Then Our Work Too Becomes A Chance To Spread The Joy Of Being A Christian.

Money Is Needed To Bring About Many Good Things But When Your Heart Is Attached, It Destroys You

The Holy Spirit Helps Us To View Others With Fresh Eyes, Seeing Them Always As Brothers And Sisters In Jesus, To Be Respected And Loved.

In Effect, A Selfish And Boundless Thirst For Power And Material Prosperity Leads Both To The Misuse Of Available Natural Resources And To The Exclusion Of The Weak And The Disadvantaged.

A Senate Vote On Gay Marriage Is A Destructive Pretension Against The Plan Of God

Unrestrained Liberalism Only Makes The Strong Stronger And The Weak Weaker And Excludes The Most Excluded.

I Believe That Catholics Involved In Politics Carry The Values Of Their Religion Within Them, But Have The Mature Awareness And Expertise To Implement Them. The Church Will Never Go Beyond Its Task Of Expressing And Disseminating Its Values, At Least As Long As I'm Here.

A Mother Defends Herself With A Heart Filled With Love Before Doing So With Words. I Wonder Whether There Is Any Love For The Church In The Hearts Of Those Who Pay So Much Attention To The Scandals.

Francis Of Assisi Tells Us We Should Work To Build Peace. But There Is No True Peace Without Truth! There Cannot Be True Peace If Everyone Is His Own Criterion, If Everyone Can Always Claim Exclusively His Own Rights, Without At The Same Time Caring For The Good Of Others, Of Everyone, On The Basis Of The Nature That Unites Every Human Being On This Earth.

I Would Love To Be A Well-educated Black, Because I Believe They Do Have An Actual Advantage.

Too Often We Participate In The Globalization Of Indifference. May We Strive Instead To Live Global Solidarity.

To Understand One Another, And To Grow In Charity And Truth, We Need To Pause, To Accept And Listen To One Another. In This Way We Already Begin To Experience Unity. Unity Grows Along The Way, It Never Stands Still. Unity Happens When We Walk Together.

All Too Often, As We Know From Experience, People Do Not Choose Life; They Do Not Accept The Gospel Of Life, But Let Themselves Be Led By Ideologies And Ways Of Thinking That Block Life, That Do Not Respect Life, Because They Are Dictated By Selfishness, Self-interest, Profit, Power And Pleasure And Not By Love. ... As A Result, The Living God Is Replaced By Fleeting Human Idols, Which Offer The Intoxication Of A Flash Of Freedom, But In The End Bring New Forms Of Slavery And Death.

Money At The Service Of Life Can Be Managed In The Right Way By Cooperatives, On Condition That It Is A Real Cooperative Where Capital Does Not Have Command Over Men But Men Over Capital.

The Joy Of The Gospel Is For All People: No One Can Be Excluded.

Many Of You Have Asked The Lord, Looking At Him: Why, Lord? And The Lord Answers To Each One Of You, To Your Heart, Christ Responds With His Heart. It's The Only Thing I Can Tell You. Let Us Look To Christ, He Is The Lord And He Understands Us Because He Underwent All The Trials That We Go Through.

I Dream Of A Church That Is A Mother And Shepherdess.

Let Those Desert Places In Our Hearts Bloom.

The Gospel, Radiant With The Glory Of Christ’s Cross, Constantly Invites Us To Rejoice.

I Do Not Know What Might Be The Most Fitting Description.... I Am A Sinner. This Is The Most Accurate Definition. It Is Not A Figure Of Speech, A Literary Genre. I Am A Sinner. And This Is What I Said When They Asked Me If I Would Accept My Election As Pontiff: I Am A Sinner, But I Trust In The Infinite Mercy And Patience Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, And I Accept In A Spirit Of Penance.

It Makes Me Sad When I Find Sisters Who Aren't Joyful. They Might Smile, But With Just A Smile They Could Be Flight Attendants!

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.

Yet Only When We Come To Understand, In The Light Of The Cross, The Evil We Are Capable Of, And Have Even Been A Part Of, Can We Experience True Remorse And True Repentance.

This May Sound Like Heresy, But It Is The Greatest Truth! It Is More Difficult To Let God Love Us, Than To Love Him! The Best Way To Love Him In Return Is To Open Our Hearts And Let Him Love Us. Let Him Draw Close To Us And Feel Him Close To Us. This Is Really Very Difficult: Letting Ourselves Be Loved By Him. And That Is Perhaps What We Need To Ask Today In The Mass: 'lord, I Want To Love You, But Teach Me The Difficult Science, The Difficult Habit Of Letting Myself Be Loved By You, To Feel You Close And Feel Your Tenderness ! May The Lord Give Us This Grace.

Migrants And Refugees Are Not Pawns On The Chessboard Of Humanity

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!

I Already Knew About This Friendship Between St. John Paul Ii And This Philosopher [ana Teresa Tymieniecka] When I Was In Buenos Aires. It Was Known. Also Her Books Are Known.

It Is Difficult To Judge The Past By The Criteria Of The Present.

When You Meet The Needy Your Heart Grows Bigger

You Might Say, 'can't We Have A More Human Christianity, Without The Cross, Without Jesus, Without Stripping Ourselves?' In This Way We'd Become Pastry-shop Christians, Like A Pretty Cake And Nice Sweet Things. Pretty, But Not True Christians.

Jesuits Make A Vow Of Obedience To The Pope. But If The Pope Is A Jesuit, Perhaps He Has To Make A Vow Of Obedience To The General Of The Jesuits! I Don’t Know How To Resolve This … I Feel A Jesuit In My Spirituality; In The Spirituality Of The Exercises, The Spirituality Deep In My Heart.

Gratitude Is A Flower That Blooms In Noble Souls.

We Must Learn From Mary, And We Must Imitate Her Unconditional Readiness To Receive Christ In Her Life.

God Chooses The Pope And God Also Made Men And Women Different.

We Need To Be Creative With Young People. If They Have No Opportunities, They Will Get Into Drugs And Be Vulnerable To Suicide.

Some People Believe That - Pardon My Language - In Order To Be Good Catholics, We Should Be Like Rabbits. No.

Certain Realities In Life Are Only Seen Through Eyes That Are Cleansed Through Our Tears. Let Us Learn How To Weep

We Are In Front Of A Global Scandal Of Around One Billion - One Billion People Who Still Suffer From Hunger Today. We Cannot Look The Other Way And Pretend This Does Not Exist. The Food Available In The World Is Enough To Feed Everyone.

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