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Pope Francis (; ; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the reigning pope of the Catholic Church, in which capacity he is both Bishop of Rome and absolute Sovereign of the Vatican City State.

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I listened and told him : I don't understand anything about this, brother, we are not clerics of state, we can not use the language of politics but that of Jesus.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 21 days ago Top News

I spoke to him for 40 minutes via Zoom, the first 20 minutes he read to me, with a card in hand, all the justifications for war.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 21 days ago Top News

It would be our second face-to-face meeting, nothing to do with the war, but now, The Patriarch too agrees : let's stop, it could be an ambiguous signal.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 21 days ago Top News

For the deplorable conduct of those members of the Catholic Church, I ask forgiveness of the Lord, and I want to tell you from my heart, that I am greatly pained. And I unite myself with the Canadian bishops in apologizing.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 1 month ago World

Today’s apology is a step forward in acknowledging the truth of our past in order to right historical wrongs, but there is still work to be done.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 1 month ago World

It is chilling to think of determined efforts to instill a sense of inferiority, to rob people of their cultural identity, to sever their roots, and to consider all the personal and social effects that this continues to entail: unresolved traumas that have become inter-generational traumas.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 1 month ago World

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life, let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Latest Headlines

Never condemn a child.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Latest Headlines

When he came to Rome to go to the Vatican he used to come here first to buy some gifts.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

How many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them!

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

And since mothers bestow life, and women keep the world [together], let us all make greater efforts to promote mothers and to protect women.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

Grant health to the infirm and inspire all men and women of good will to seek the best ways possible to overcome the current health crisis and its effects.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

Our capacity for social relationships is sorely tired, there is a growing tendency to withdraw, to do it all by ourselves, to stop making an effort to encounter others and do things together.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

The humble are those who are concerned not simply with the past but also with the future, since they know how to look ahead, to spread their branches, remembering the past with gratitude, the proud, on the other hand, simply repeat, grow rigid and enclose themselves in that repetition, feeling certain about what they know and fearful of anything new because they cannot control it.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

The story of Naaman reminds us that Christmas is the time when each of us needs to find the courage to take off our armor, discard the trappings of our roles, our social recognition and the glitter of this world and adopt the humility of Naaman.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

There is only one thing that really makes us age, grow old inside: not age, but sin.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

This is an occasion for renewing our commitment to love and care for our common home and for the weaker members of our human family.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Environment

This is not a time for continuing to manufacture and deal in arms, spending vast amounts of money that ought to be used to care for others and save lives.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We want to respond to the pandemic of the virus with the universality of prayer, of compassion, of tenderness, let's remain united.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 2 years ago World

This asymmetry, by which a select few know everything about us while we know nothing about them, dulls critical thought and the conscious exercise of freedom, inequalities expand enormously; knowledge and wealth accumulate in a few hands with grave risks for democratic societies.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Technology

Inequalities expand enormously; knowledge and wealth accumulate in a few hands with grave risks for democratic societies.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Technology

I ask you to pray for all the victims of violence in that land.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 2 years ago World

To throw it out can be against human law, but to bring the idols into the church was a grave sin, a crime against divine law.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 2 years ago World

It is necessary to ask whether there is a real political will to allocate greater human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and to help the poorest and most vulnerable populations, who suffer most.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

The last forests are menaced by forest fires, poaching, the unrestricted cutting down of valuable woodlands. Plant and animal biodiversity is endangered by contraband and illegal exportation.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

May no-one be abandoned or exploited.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Environment

Its fundamental that there is no certainty that there was an ordination with the same formula, with the same goal, as the male ordination.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

I want to express my loving closeness to the Christian community, targeted while they were gathered in prayer, and all the victims of such cruel violence.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian, this is not the Gospel.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Those who build walls will become prisoners of the walls they put up, this is history.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian, this is not the gospel.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Without doubt, even moments of great difficulty, of tormented decisions of Christian and human prudence, that to some could have seemed like reticence, were instead attempts, humanly very difficult, to keep the light of humanitarian initiatives, of hidden but active diplomacy lit, in periods of greatest darkness and cruelty, in the hope of a possible opening of hearts.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

I believe that it may still be being done. It's not a thing that from the moment in which you realize it, it's over. The thing goes forward like this. We've been working on this for a long time.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I believe that The Vatican may still be being done. The Vatican's not a thing that from the moment in which you realize The Vatican, it's over. The Vatican goes forward like this. We've been working on this for a long time.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Do we have the will ? Yes.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

But when Pope Benedict became Pope, the first thing( Pope Benedict said was) bring me this from the archives and Pope Benedict began, pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a women's congregation that had a certain level because this slavery of women had entered, even sexual slavery, by clerics or by the founder.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

There are cases, usually in new congregations and in some regions more than others, we're working on it.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

It is true ... there have been priests and even bishops who have done this. I think it is still going on because something does not stop just because you have become aware of it, we have been working on this for a long time. We have suspended some priests because of this.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

We have been working on this for a long time. We have suspended some priests because of this.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

I can't say 'this does not happen in my house.' It is true. Do we have to do more? Yes. Are we willing? Yes.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

There have been priests and also bishops who have done that, and I believe that it may still be being done. It's not a thing that from the moment in which you realize it, it's over. The thing goes forward like this. We've been working on this for a long time.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

But when Pope Benedict became Pope Francis, the first thing( he said was) bring me this from the archives and Pope Benedict began, pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a women's congregation that had a certain level because this slavery of women had entered, even sexual slavery, by clerics or by the founder.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

Pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a women's congregation that had a certain level because this slavery of women had entered, even sexual slavery, by clerics or by the founder.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

Should we do something more? Yes, is there the will? Yes. But its a path that we have already begun.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

Personally I think that celibacy is a gift to the Church. I am not in agreement (with those who say) optional celibacy should be permitted.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Lifestyle

I think the question should be open in places where there is a pastoral problem because of the lack of priests. I'm not saying that we have to do it, because I have not reflected and prayed about this sufficiently but theologians have to study this.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Lifestyle

You dear people are not the future, but the now of God.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

Young people are scandalized by the hypocrisy of older people, they are scandalized by war. They are scandalized by incongruity, they are scandalized by corruption, and as part of this corruption... sexual abuse.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

In these times, it seems like the ‘Great Accuser’ has been unchained and has it in for bishops, true, we are all sinners, we bishops. He tries to uncover the sins, so they are visible in order to scandalize the people.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

We ask forgiveness for the abuses in Ireland, we ask forgiveness for all the times that we, as Catholic Church, did not provide survivors of any kind of abuse compassion, to look for justice, and the truth, and concrete actions, so we ask forgiveness.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

We ask forgiveness for all the times that we, as Catholic Church, did not provide survivors of any kind of abuse compassion, to look for justice, and the truth, and concrete actions, so we ask forgiveness.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

I may speak. i read the statement this morning, and I must tell Leo Varadkar sincerely... read the statement carefully and make Leo Varadkar own judgment.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

None of us can fail to be moved by the stories of young people who suffered abuse, were robbed of their innocence and left scarred, this open wound challenges us to be firm and decisive in the pursuit of truth and justice. I beg forgiveness for these sins and for the scandal and betrayal felt by so many others in God’s family.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

Roman Catholic Church is Roman Catholic Church, playbook page 82. Roman Catholic Church is what they do -- they hide, they are deceitful in what they do. Roman Catholic Church is self-seeking, and they're going to spin every story.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago U.S.

They stole the most sacred thing I had, and Roman Catholic Church was my Roman Catholic Church.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago U.S.

There should be no room for opportunistic and cynical efforts to gain small partial results in the short run while shifting equally significant costs and damages to future generations, civilization requires energy.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

I am on the side of the Bishops' Conference, it's not easy, but populism is not the solution.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

Anyone can publish or voice their opinion. I don't excommunicate people. Time and the Lord will change things, i don't feel like judging them. I pray and I ask the Lord to settle their hearts and mine too.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

I had to fight.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

Sicknesses are, we can say, normal in these cases. And we have to struggle.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

There were struggles( over the bank) and I had to take strong decisions.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

This means the vocation of those who govern is to help the poor. We are all poor.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

I am on the side of the bishops' conference, it's not easy, but populism is not the solution.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I believe that you can not reject people who arrive. You have to receive them, help them, look after them, accompany them and then see where to put them, but throughout all of Europe, some governments are working on it, and people have to be settled in the best possible way, but creating psychosis is not the cure.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Pope Francis also called for prayer for the summit to end the tensions between the two Koreas before Pope Francis homily at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. May the talks that will take place in Singapore in the coming days contribute to the development of a positive path to ensure a peaceful future for the Korean Peninsula and for the whole world.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

Civilization requires energy but energy use must not destroy civilization.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Environment

The situations we find ourselves in today pose therefore new challenges that at times are difficult even for us to understand, how do we announce Christ to a generation which changes ?

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

I have accompanied people with homosexual tendencies and also with homosexual practices, people must be accompanied, as Jesus accompanied.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

We need to be careful not to administer to them a vaccine against the faith.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

I apologize for hurting them without realizing it. But I did not intend this, the word' proof' was not the best way to approach a pained heart. I would say' evidence.' In Barros' case, it was studied. It was restudied. And there is no evidence. And that is what I wanted to say. I don't have evidence to convict. If I convicted without evidence or without moral certainty, I would commit a crime of being a bad judge.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

The word' proof' was not the best way to approach a pained heart. I would say' evidence.' In Barros' case, it was studied. It was restudied. And there is no evidence. And that is what I wanted to say. I don't have evidence to convict. If I convicted without evidence or without moral certainty, I would commit a crime of being a bad judge.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

There is not one shred of proof against him. It’s all calumny.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

There is not a person alive who would not want to save Charlie, if there is new evidence I will hear it.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

It is with the heaviest of hearts but with complete conviction for Charlie’s best interests that I find it is in Charlie’s best interests that I accede to these applications and rule that Great Ormond Street Hospital may lawfully withdraw all treatment save for palliative care to permit Charlie to die with dignity.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

I did my job. I will continue to do my job.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

It is with the heaviest of hearts but with complete conviction for Charlie’s best interests that I find it is in Charlie’s best interests that I accede to these applications and rule that Great Ormond Street Hospitalhave may lawfully withdraw all treatment save for palliative care to permit Charlie Gard to die with dignity.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 4 years ago World

I will say what I think, he will say what he thinks, but I never, ever, wanted to make a judgment without hearing the person.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

It's piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot, today a wider war would destroy, I won't say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don't think humanity today could bear it.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

If they are produced and sold, sooner or later they will be used, only by bringing into the light of day the murky maneuverings that feed the cancer of war can its real causes be prevented. National leaders, institutions and the media are obliged to undertake this urgent and grave task.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

Quite a few years of life have strengthened my conviction that each and everyone's existence is deeply tied to that of others, life is not time merely passing by, life is about interactions.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Tenderness means to use our eyes to see the other, our ears to hear the other, to listen to the children, the poor, those who are afraid of The Future You, to listen also to the silent cry of our common home, of our sick and polluted Earth. Tenderness means to use our hands and our heart to comfort the other, to take care of those in need.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I don't know if he was able to get out of that concentration camp, because the refugee camps -- many -- are concentration (camps), because they are so crowded with people.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

In the complex and often dramatic situations of today's world, may the Risen Lord guide the steps of all those who work for justice and peace.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Especially in these days, may he sustain the efforts of all those actively engaged in bringing comfort and relief to the civil population in Syria, prey to a war that continues to sow horror and death. And yesterday, the latest despicable attack on refugees which caused a number of deaths and injuries.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Everywhere he (Jesus) helps these forced migrants to encounter brothers and sisters, with whom they can share bread and hope on their journey.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

May it be possible for bridges of dialogue to be built, by continuing to fight the scourge of corruption and to seek viable and peaceful solutions to disputes, for progress and the strengthening of democratic institutions in complete respect for the rule of law.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

To my dear brother his Holiness Pope Tawadros II, to the Coptic Church and to all of the dear country Egypt, I express my deep condolences, I prayed for the dead and the wounded. I am close to the families and to the entire community. God convert the hearts of the people who spread terror.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

We need to consider if 'viri probati' could be a possibility, if so, we would need to determine what duties they could undertake, for example, in remote communities.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Truth means not to be afraid, fears close doors, freedom opens them. And if freedom is small, it at least opens a little window.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

I think the media have to be very clear, very transparent, and not fall into—no offense intended—the sickness of coprophagia, that is, always wanting to cover scandals, covering nasty things, even if they are true, and since people have a tendency towards the sickness of coprophagia, a lot of damage can be done.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

I think it is not right to identity Islam with violence, this is not right and this is not true.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I don't like to talk about Islamic violence because every day when I look at the papers I see violence here in Italy - someone killing his girlfriend, someone killing his mother-in-law. These are baptized Catholics, if I speak of Islamic violence, I have to speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I know it dangerous to say this but terrorism grows when there is no other option and when money is made a god and it, instead of the person, is put at the center of the world economy, that is the first form of terrorism. That is a basic terrorism against all humanity. Let's talk about that.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I think that in nearly all religions there is a always a small fundamentalist group.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

If I speak of Islamic violence, I have to speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

That is the first form of terrorism. That is a basic terrorism against all humanity. Let's talk about that.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I ask myself how many young people that we Europeans have left devoid of ideals, who do not have work. Then they turn to drugs and alcohol or enlist in ISIS.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

The word that is being repeated often is insecurity, but the real word is war, let's recognize it. The world is in a state of war in bits and pieces.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

Now there is this one (war). It is perhaps not organic but it is organized and it is war, we should not be afraid to speak this truth. The world is at war because it has lost peace.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

Not a war of religion. There is a war of interests. There is a war for money. There is a war for natural resources. There is a war for domination of peoples. This is the war, all religions want peace. Others want war. Do you understand?

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

Let's recognize it. The world is in a state of war in bits and pieces.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

All religions want peace. Others want war. Do you understand?

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

There is something that is not working in that bulky union, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water, let’s try to jump-start things, to re-create.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

There is only one pope.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

It was the will expressed by the people and this requires a great responsibility on the part of all of us to guarantee the good of the people of the United Kingdom, as well as the good and co-existence of the European continent, this is what I expect.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

Let us not allow darkness and fear to distract us and control us.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

How many of our brothers these days are living through a real and dramatic situation of exile, far from their homelands. In their eyes they still have the ruins of their homes.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

Immigrants today are suffering outdoors, without food, and can not get in. They don't feel welcome.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

I would like to congratulate the teacher Hanan Al Hroub for winning this prestigious prize due to the importance that she gave to the role of play in a child's education.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I will say to them: 'Please take your money away, burn it', the people of God... do not need dirty money, they need hearts that are open to God's mercy.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

Some donors come to the Church offering profits from the blood of people who have been exploited, mistreated, enslaved with badly paid work, i will say to them: 'Please take your money away, burn it'.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

The people of God... do not need dirty money, they need hearts that are open to God's mercy.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

I make an appeal to the conscience of all rulers, so that we can achieve an international consensus for the abolition of the death penalty.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' has absolute value and applies to both the innocent and the guilty.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Health

Abortion is not a lesser evil. It is a crime. It is killing one person to save another. It is what the Mafia does, it is a crime. It is an absolute evil.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Health

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian, this is not in the gospel.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

It is to kill someone in order to save another. This is what the Mafia does, on the other hand, avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

In certain cases ... such as the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I see so much hope in a people who have suffered so much.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

If it continues this way, Cuba will be the capital of unity, now what's left is Colombia.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Most Read Articles

Finally, we are brothers.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Most Read Articles

It is very clear that this is the will of God.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Most Read Articles

Never forget that before us there is not the sin, but a repentant sinner ... a person who wishes to be accepted and forgiven.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

It is not with the cudgel of judgment that we succeed in bringing the lost sheep back to the fold.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I direct this invitation to conversion even more fervently to those whose behavior distances them from the grace of God, i particularly have in mind men and women belonging to criminal organizations of any kind. For their own good, I beg them to change their lives.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

If you get an urge to say something against a brother or a sister, to drop a gossip bomb, bite your tongue! Hard!

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Social networks can facilitate relationships and promote the good of society, but they can also lead to further polarization and division between individuals and groups.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Company News

(There has been) violence, death, unspeakable suffering by so many innocent people, refugees forced to leaves their countries, men, women and children without homes, food or means of support.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus, in this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

We are on the brink. We are on the brink of a suicide, to use a strong word, and I am sure that most of those at the COP have this conscience, and want to do something.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

My wish for you and for all Central Africans is peace.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

It's not just in politics. It is in all institutions, including in the Vatican there are cases of corruption, corruption is something that eats you inside like sugar. It's sweet, we like it, it's easy. And then we end up sick and poor. So much sugar that we either end up being diabetic or own country ends up being diabetic.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

Our world has a grave social debt toward the poor who lack access to drinking water because they are denied a life consistent with their inalienable dignity.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

It would be sad, and I dare say even catastrophic, were particular interests to prevail over the common good.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

I encourage you to work with integrity and transparency for the common good, and to foster a spirit of solidarity at every level of society.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

Religious and human. This is not human.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 6 years ago U.S.

It was also about laying bare the closed hearts, which frequently hide even behind the church’s teachings or good intentions, in order to sit in the chair of Moses and judge, sometimes with superiority and superficiality, difficult cases and wounded families.

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Found on FOX News 6 years ago U.S.

Those who serve others and lack real prestige exercise genuine authority in the Church.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

Service is the way for authority to be exercised in the Christian community.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

It is a right, and if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 6 years ago U.S.

I can say the conscientious objection is a right that is a part of every human right. It is a right, conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right, a human right.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The people who had the responsibility to take care of these tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain, those who have survived this abuse have become true heralds of mercy. Humbly we owe each of them our gratitude for their great value, as they have had to suffer terrible abuse, sexual abuse of minors.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago U.S.

I am here as a pastor, but above all as a brother, to share your situation and to make it my own, i have come so that we can pray together and offer our God everything that causes us pain, but also everything that gives us hope, so that we can receive from him the power of the resurrection.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago U.S.

We know abuses are everywhere, in families, in the neighborhoods, in the schools, in the gyms, but when a priest abuses it is very grave because the vocation of the priest is to make that boy, that girl grow towards the love of God, toward maturity, but instead (the victim) is crushed by evil and this is nearly a sacrilege because the priest has betrayed his vocation, the calling of the Lord.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

Conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

Junipero Serra left his native land and its way of life, he was excited about blazing trails, going forth to meet many people, learning and valuing their particular customs and ways of life.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

He was excited about blazing trails, going forth to meet many people, learning and valuing their particular customs and ways of life.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

They get lost amid all the other things we do, yet they do make each day different, they are the quiet things done by mothers and grandmothers, by fathers and grandfathers, by children and siblings.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Living

I have heard in my heart these stories of suffering of those youth that were sexually abused, and it continues to be on my mind, those who have survived this abuse have become true heralds of mercy. Humbly we owe each of them our gratitude for their great value, as they have had to suffer terrible abuse, sexual abuse of minors.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The people who had the responsibility to take care of these tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Those who have survived this abuse have become true heralds of mercy. Humbly we owe each of them our gratitude for their great value, as they have had to suffer terrible abuse, sexual abuse of minors.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate, but religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago U.S.

Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our conscience dictates, but religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

What would the Church be without you?

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I would like to give you some homework. Can I do that? It is a simple request, but very important, please don't forget to pray for me, so that I can share with many people the joy of Jesus.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

They tell me that one of the nice things about this school ... is that some of its students here, some of you, come from other places and many from other countries, that is nice!

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners, we must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our 'neighbors' and everything around us, building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity in a constant effort to do our best.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

That dream continues to inspire us all.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Merton was above all a man of prayer, a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the church. He was also a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between peoples and religions.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 6 years ago U.S.

It's not only possible, but also proper, for a Catholic or a member of any other religious tradition to be concerned with justice, peace in the world, understanding of other faiths and concern for the environment. [Pope Francis] is putting on record that what he’s doing is not all that new.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 6 years ago U.S.

Every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I also offer encouragement to all those who are convinced that a just and necessary punishment must never exclude the dimension of hope and the goal of rehabilitation.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I am convinced that we can make a difference, and I have no doubt that the United States -- and this Congress have an important role to play.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Is this not what we want for our own children ?

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem, which can no longer be left to a future generation, when it comes to the care of our 'common home,' we are living at a critical moment of history. We still have time to make the changes needed to bring about a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

The only thing I would like is to go out one day, without being recognized, and go to a pizzeria for a pizza.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Lifestyle

God is not a magician with a magic wand.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

I would like all men and women of good will in this great nation to support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

It is a public thing that is moving along the path of the. good relations they are looking for, my desire is that they end up with a good result, that they reach an accord that satisfies both sides, an accord, certainly.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

An unfettered pursuit of money rules. The service of the common good is left behind, once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

All of us are asked, indeed urged, by Jesus to care for one another out of love ... Without looking to one side or the other to see what our neighbor is doing or not doing.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

For some months now, we have witnessed an event which fills us with hope, the process of normalizing relations between two peoples following years of estrangement.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

It is remarkable how weak international responses have been.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The Marxist ideology is wrong, but I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don't feel offended.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offense of the church herself.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I like to laugh. It helps me to feel closer to God and closer to other people. When we laugh with each other -- and not at each other -- God's love is present in a special way, i invite you to share your joy with a laugh! God longs for you to be happy!

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Not paying fairly, not giving a job because you are only looking at how to make a profit -- that goes against God.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The tragedy of abortion is experienced by some with a superficial awareness, as if not realizing the extreme harm that such an act entails, many others, on the other hand, although experiencing this moment as a defeat, believe that they have no other option.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

The forgiveness of God cannot be denied to one who has repented.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

For all these brothers and sisters, I pray and ask you to pray.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

As Christians we wish to contribute to resolving the ecological crisis which humanity is presently experiencing.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Environment

We say 'no' to corruption that is so widespread that it seems to be an attitude, normal behavior, but not in words, rather in deeds. We say 'no' to Mafia collusion, fraud, bribes, and the like.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Ecology is human, we cannot separate man from everything else.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

I have a great hope in the Paris summit in December, i really do hope that a fundamental basic agreement is reached. The U.N. (needs) to take a very strong position on this issue, in particular trafficking of human beings.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

The Holy See can make nice speeches.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

You're right. It's an error of mine not to think about this, the world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization between the rich and poor is big. This is true. And, perhaps this has led me to not take account of this (the problems of the middle class).

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization between the rich and poor is big. This is true. And, perhaps this has led me to not take account of this (the problems of the middle class).

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

I think you’re telling me about something I need to do. I need to do delve further into this .....

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

I never tasted coca (leaves), let's be clear about that.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

It's another culture ... I respect it.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

The invitation is already serving a purpose, it sends a symbolic message of inclusion and respect.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

I say this to you with regret, many grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I could not leave Bolivia without seeing you.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

Dear friends, I begin my visit filled with excitement and hope for the days ahead.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The foreign debt of poor countries has become a way of controlling them, yet this is not the case where ecological debt is concerned.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world, we need to reflect on our accountability before those who will have to endure the dire consequences.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Energy

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

I would like to enter a dialogue with all people about our common home.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

Indeed, when all is said and done.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system, humanity is called to recognise the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Energy

The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world ... we need to reflect on our accountability before those who will have to endure the dire consequences.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Energy

It is true that there are other factors - such as volcanic activity, variations in the earth's orbit and axis, the solar cycle - yet a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others - released mainly as a result of human activity.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Energy

We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Energy

Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Health

Real relationships with others, with all the challenges they entail.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Health

Our home is being ruined, and this damages everyone, especially the poorest, i therefore make an appeal for responsibility, on the basis of the task that God assigned to the human being in creation :' to tend and to keep' the' garden' in which He placed him.'.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Sports

Enormous consumption in some rich countries have repercussions in some of the poorest places on Earth.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Environment

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

It’s not for me.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

The inaccurate headlines camefrom around the world :.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Opinion

– Australia’s ABC.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Opinion

They are men and women like us, our brothers seeking a better life, starving, persecuted, wounded, exploited, victims of war. They were looking for a better life, they were looking for happiness.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

In the past century, our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

The first, which is widely considered 'the first genocide of the twentieth century,' struck your own Armenian people.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

This is everyone's house, it is your house.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

The bishop said the blood is only half liquefied. It appears the saint only loves us half-way. We have to convert ourselves (to good) more so he loves us more.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

Four or five years, i do not know, even two or three. Two have already passed. It is a somewhat vague sensation. Maybe it's like the psychology of the gambler who convinces himself he will lose, so he won't be disappointed and if he wins, is happy. I do not know.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

I think the devil is punishing Mexico with great fury.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Health

Clearly it is a technical term. It has nothing to do with the dignity of Mexico. Like when we talk about Balkanization, neither the Serbs, nor Macedonians nor Croats get angry.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Health

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

I have the feeling that my pontificate will be brief - four or five years, even two or three. Two have already passed. It's a somewhat strange sensation, i feel that the Lord has placed me here for a short time.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

The only thing I would like is to go out one day, without being recognized, and go to a pizzeria for a pizza, in Buenos Aires, I was a rover.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

People are being discarded and forced to seek employment elsewhere.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

In general, I think what Benedict so courageously did was to open the door to the popes emeritus. Benedict should not be considered an exception, but an institution.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

In Buenos Aires, I was a rover.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

I would like to recall Venezuela, which is once again experiencing new moments of acute tension ... I pray for the victims and in particular for the boy killed a few days ago in San Cristobal, i call on everyone to reject violence and urge respect for the dignity of all persons and for the sacredness of human life and I encourage a return to a common movement for the good of the country with the opening up of areas for sincere and constructive meeting and dialogue.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

When money becomes an idol, it commands the choices of man. And thus it ruins man and condemns him. It makes him a slave, money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

I once heard at a wedding a father say, 'I sometimes have to hit my children a little but never in the face, so as to not demean them.' How nice, I thought, he has a sense of dignity, when he punishes, he does it right and moves on.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental, this father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

But God gives you methods to be responsible, some think that, excuse me if I use that word, that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits. No. Responsible parenthood.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Living

If Dr. Gasbarri, a great friend, says a swear word against my mother, then a punch awaits him, it's normal, it's normal. One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Living

The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity, this is something truly good, a gift from God.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Living

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 many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. we should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Living

In that moment I thought about what I would do: Either I insult them and give them a kick where the sun doesn't shine or I play the fool.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Living

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Living

It is not easy to be humble servants if you see the role of a cardinal as a position of power or superiority.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

I have heard it said that families with many children and the birth of many children are the among the causes of poverty. I think that is a simplistic opinion.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

That is an irresponsibility!

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

I would like to go to California for the canonization of Junipero, but I think there is the problem of time. It requires two more days.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits - but no.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

But this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

The reason was not a refusal of the person or fear of China.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished and protected, and we need to care for our young people, not allowing them to be robbed of hope and condemned to a life on the streets.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

Women have much to tell us in today's society. At times we are too 'machista' and don't allow room for women.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

But women are capable of seeing things with a different angle from us, with a different eye, and pose questions that we men are not able to understand ... so when the next pope comes to Manila, let's please have more women among you.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

Respect for the environment means more than simply using cleaner products or recycling what we use. These are important aspects, but not enough, we need to see, with the eyes of faith, the beauty of God's saving plan, the link between the natural environment and the dignity of the human person.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Industrials

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family. When we destroy our forests, ravage our soil and pollute our seas, we betray that noble calling.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Industrials

I felt that I had to be here ... I am here to be with you, perhaps a little late, I have to say, but I am here.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

In September, God willing, I will canonize Junipero Serra in the United States, who was the evangelizer of the west of the United States.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago U.S.

I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

I am in God's hands, am I afraid ? You know that I have a defect, a nice of dose of being careless. If anything should happen to me, I have told the Lord, I ask you only to give me the grace that it doesn't hurt because I am not courageous when confronted with pain. I am very timid.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

Am I afraid ? You know that I have a defect, a nice of dose of being careless. If anything should happen to me, I have told the Lord, I ask you only to give me the grace that it doesn't hurt because I am not courageous when confronted with pain. I am very timid.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Environment

I think man has gone too far, thank God that today there are voices that are speaking out about this.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Environment

I don't know if it is all (man's fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Environment

I don't know if it (human activity) is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

It is a continuing tragedy in our world that so many communities are at war with themselves, the inability to reconcile differences and disagreements, whether old or new, has given rise to ethnic and religious tensions, frequently accompanied by outbreaks of violence.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

To them and to their governments, I wish to voice yet again the desire of the Holy See to offer its own contribution of service to the common good, to harmony and social concord.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

Markets and financial speculation cannot enjoy absolute autonomy, we cannot wait any longer to resolve the structural causes of poverty in order to cure our society of an illness that can only lead to new crises.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

We cannot wait any longer to resolve the structural causes of poverty in order to cure our society of an illness that can only lead to new crises.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

You mothers give your children milk and even now, if they cry because they are hungry, breastfeed them, don't worry.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

The Gospel does not condemn the wealthy, but the idolatry of wealth, the idolatry that makes people indifferent to the call of the poor.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

All of us are called (by God) to be free, all are called to be sons and daughters, and each, according to his or her own responsibilities, is called to combat modern forms of enslavement. From every people, culture and religion, let us join our forces.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

If you don't get the information to the families, it's just torturous.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

I ask him, the Saviour of the world, to look upon our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Syria, who for too long now have suffered the effects of ongoing conflict, and who, together with those belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, are suffering a brutal persecution, may Christmas bring them hope, as indeed also to the many displaced persons, exiles and refugees, children, adults and elderly, from this region and from the whole world.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

May Christmas bring them hope, as indeed also to the many displaced persons, exiles and refugees, children, adults and elderly, from this region and from the whole world.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

You are like Jesus on Christmas night. There was no room for him either ...

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

You're like Jesus on this night, and I bless you and am close to you, i embrace you all and wish for you a holy Christmas.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

You are like Jesus on Christmas night. There was no room for him either, and he had to flee to Egypt later to save himself.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

Dear brothers, such diseases and such temptations are naturally a danger for each Christian and for each Curia, ... We have to cure ourselves of these.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

This is a serious disease that begins simply when people chatter, and it takes over the person, turning the person as a Satan, and in so many cases people are speaking ill about their own colleagues and brothers and sisters. These people haven't got the courage to speak directly, and they speak about others behind their backs, dear brothers, let us be aware and guard against the terrorism of gossip.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

Within Catholic Church, there is a tough group of conservative bishops and priests and cardinals, and also very traditionalist bishops and cardinals who are practically against the Pope, who are working against The Pope, they don't like what The Pope wanted to do with the synod about family, to give new possibilities to remarried and divorced people to get the communion, or to have a new look on the homosexual union.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

This disease also begins from good intentions, but with the passing of time enslaves its members, becoming a cancer which threatens the harmony of the body and causes a lot of evil and scandal, especially towards our small brothers and sisters.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

This is a disease of people who seek tirelessly to multiply power only aimed at calumny, and to defame and discredit others.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

I would like to pray together with you for the victims of the inhuman terrorist acts carried out in the past few days in Australia, Pakistan and Yemen.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

We are facing a global phenomenon which exceeds the. competence of any one community or country. In order to eliminate it, we need a mobilization comparable in size to that of the phenomenon itself.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

Argentina needs to get to the end of this administration in peace. Breaking with the democratic, constitutional system at this moment would be a mistake. Everybody should work together in this and then elect a new government.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

It is essential that all citizens - Muslim, Jewish and Christian - both in the provision and practice of the law, enjoy the same rights and respect the same duties.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

There needs to be a united response to the question of migration. We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery, the boats landing daily on the shores of Europe are filled with men and women who need acceptance and assistance.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

The boats landing daily on the shores of Europe are filled with men and women who need acceptance and assistance.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

As a result, the great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

Their preference for the smallest and poorest was the reflection and measure of their unconditional love of God.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

They responded with extraordinary creativity to the commandment of love of God and neighbor.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

May the example of the four Italian saints help the dear Italian people to rekindle the spirit of collaboration and harmony for the public good, and to look to the future with hope.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Lifestyle

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