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- We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.
- 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…
- God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways…
- 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…
- I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful;…
- Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
- Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live…
- How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today,…
- In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church;…
- If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains…
- On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.
- We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they have…
- Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the…
- If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor,…
- This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and…
- It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.
- We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.
- Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.
- You can't have Christ without the Church,
- I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the…
- All Catholics must ask themselves what they personally have done lately to build up the holiness of the church and ensure people feel welcomed and…
- We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves…
- Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement.…
- The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with…
- In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.
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