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Pope Francis


Argentinian
December 17, 1936
Clergyman
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We all have the duty to do good.


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Tags: Good Duty
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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.


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Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!


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Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.


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Tags: Truth People Just
Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.
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Tags: Only Most Makes
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.


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Tags: God World Every
Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
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The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
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Tags: Which Us Better
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
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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.
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We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.
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Tags: Work Women Make
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.
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Tags: Food Who Things
If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.
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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.
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Tags: God Change Would
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
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Tags: Men Power People
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
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Tags: Good Very Which
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
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Tags: Without May Walk
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.
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Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
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Tags: Time Work Music
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
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Tags: God Teacher Being
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.
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Tags: God Me Always
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
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Tags: Good Faith Who
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.
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Tags: God You Life
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.
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Tags: Age Out Up