We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All religions are true, because they are true in the hearts of all those who believe in them. What other kind of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless;… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ...… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Today too, as at her origins, the Church... cries out:“Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities. — Pope Francis Copy Share
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share
“Most people nowadays would not consider love as related in any way to truth. Love is seen as an experience associated with the world… — Pope Francis Copy Share
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable… — Pope Francis Copy Share
I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they… — Pope Francis Copy Share
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share
To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater… — Pope Francis Copy Share
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves. — Pope Francis Copy Share
I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their… — Pope Francis Copy Share
Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep — Pope Francis Copy Share
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