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Those Who Today Always Look For Disciplinarian Solutions, Those Who Long For An Exaggerated Doctrinal 'security,' Those Who Stubbornly Try To Recover A Past That No Longer Exists - They Have A Static And Inward-directed View Of Things. In This Way, Faith Becomes An Ideology Among Other Ideologies.

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Those Who Today Always

Pope Francis

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Those Who Today Always Look For Disciplinarian Solutions, Those Who Long For An Exaggerated Doctrinal 'security,' Those Who Stubbornly Try To Recover A Past That No Longer Exists - They Have A Static And Inward-directed View Of Things. In This Way, Faith Becomes An Ideology Among Other Ideologies.

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Every Expression Of True Beauty Can Be Acknowledged As A Path Leading To An Encounter With The Lord Jesus.

Today People Are Suffering From Poverty, But Also From Lack Of Love

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

Capacity To Love

Oh Mary, Star Of The Sea, Once Again We Recourse To Thee, To Find Refuge And Sernity, To Implore Your Protection And Help. Mother Of God And Our Mother, Turn Your Sweet Gaze Towards Those Who Face The Dangers Of The Sea Everyday To Guarantee Their Families The Necessary Sustenance For Life, To Protect The Respect Of Creation, To Serve Peace Between Peoples.

If Money And Material Things Become The Center Of Our Lives, They Seize Us And Make Us Slaves.

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.

Workers Should Have Sundays Off Because Sunday Is For The Family. Calling For Sundays To Be A Holiday.

Christian Marriage Is That Sacrament Which Builds Up The Community Of The Church And Of Society. Marriage Has Been Inscribed In Creation's Design By God, And, By His Grace, Countless Christian Men And Women Have Lived Married Life Fully.

In The Silence Of The Cross, The Uproar Of Weapons Ceases And The Language Of Reconciliation, Forgiveness, Dialogue And Peace Is Spoken.

Every Child Who, Rather Than Being Born, Is Condemned Unjustly To Being Aborted, Bears The Face Of Jesus Christ, Bears The Face Of The Lord, Who Even Before He Was Born, And Then Just After Birth, Experienced The World’s Rejection. And Every Elderly Person…even If He Is Ill Or At The End Of His Days, Bears The Face Of Christ. They Cannot Be Discarded, As The ‘culture Of Waste’ Suggests!

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.

Our Prayer Cannot Be Reduced To An Hour On Sundays. It Is Important To Have A Daily Relationship With The Lord.

We Are Called To Live Our Baptism Every Day, As New Creatures, Clothed In Christ.

Children Are Victims Of A Social Problem That Wounds The Family.

The Family Is The Most Important Wealth Of A Nation. May We Endeavor To Defend And Strengthen The Foundation Of Society.

This Culture Of Waste Has Made Us Insensitive Even To The Waste And Disposal Of Food, Which Is Even More Despicable When All Over The World, Unfortunately, Many Individuals And Families Are Suffering From Hunger And Malnutrition.

The Church's Challenge Is Staying Close To The People, Close To The People Of The United States, Not Being A Detached Church From The People But Close To Them, Close, Close, And This Is Something That The Church In The United States Has Understood And Understood Well.

Integrating In The Church Doesn't Mean Receiving Communion.

While The Earnings Of A Minority Are Growing Exponentially, So Too Is The Gap Separating The Majority From The Prosperity Enjoyed By Those Happy Few. This Imbalance Is The Result Of Ideologies Which Defend The Absolute Autonomy Of The Marketplace And Financial Speculation. Consequently, They Reject The Right Of States, Charged With Vigilance For The Common Good, To Exercise Any Form Of Control.

Total Openness To Serving Others Is Our Hallmark, It Alone Is Our Title Of Honour!

The Goods Of The Earth Are Meant For Everyone.

Peace Is Handcrafted. It Is Made Every Day. Also Friendship Among People, Mutual Knowledge, Esteem, Is Handcrafted. It's Made Every Day. Respect The Other, Say That Which One Thinks, But With Respect, But Walk Together.

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

To Follow Jesus Means To Share His Merciful Love For Every Human Being.

Dear Young People, Christ Asks You To Be Wide Awake And Alert, To See The Things In Life That Really Matter.

Gratitude Is A Flower That Blooms In Noble Souls.

Whoever Does Not Pray To God, Prays To The Devil.

None Of Us Can Think We Are Exempt From Concerns For The Poor And For Social Justice.

If Globalization Seeks To Bring All Of Us Together, But To Do So Respecting Each Person, Each Individual Person's Peculiarity, That Globalization Is Good And Makes Us Good And Grow And Leads To Peace.

Whenever We Encounter Another Person In Love, We Learn Something New About God.

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