When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back… — 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
At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in… — 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
Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, for proselytizing is a caricature of evangelization, but rather evangelizing entails attracting by our witness those… — 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
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 think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has… — 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
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Babies cry, make noise, go here and there. But it annoys me when a baby cries in church and there are those… — 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
The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything… — 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
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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