Pope Francis Quotes:

So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.

Topics: Heart, Silence, Doe, Silent Heart

I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

Topics: Jesus, Gold, Silver

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

Topics: Hurt, Dirty, Church, Confined

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

Topics: Class, Differences, World, Polarization

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

Topics: Prayer, Praying, Hungry, Prayer Works

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

Topics: Aggravation, Poverty, Tasks

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

Topics: Biblical, Voice, Giving, Social Inequality, Scandalous

God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.

Topics: Men, Different, Pope

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

Topics: Jesus, Humility, Way

There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.

Topics: People, Church, Trying

Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.

Topics: Jesus, Heal, Wounded

I'm the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth.

Topics: Healthy, Type, Humans, Healthy Love

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

Topics: Giving, Waiting, His Love

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Topics: Elderly, Dignity, Our Family, Elders

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

Topics: Wish, Essentials, Dignity, Decent Work, Dignity Of Work

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

source: - Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. October 18, 2014.

Topics: World, Changing The World, Be Good, Repaying, Repayment

God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.

Topics: Divine, Magician, Creator

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

Topics: Doe, Lord, Share

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

Topics: Giving, Desire, Looks

In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness

Topics: Hurt, Prayer, Heart, Hardness, Boundless Love

I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

Topics: Blood, Grace, Church

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.

Topics: Fall, Play, Together, Fall Back

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

Topics: People, Needs, Living My Life

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

Topics: Children, Father, Doe, God Is In Control, Worst Moments

We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness

Topics: Grace, Abundance, Mercy, Grace And Mercy, God Heals

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

Topics: Jesus, Mean, Heart, Stripping

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

Topics: Slave, Materials, Material Things

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more

Topics: Children, Home, Men

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

Topics: Jesus, Each Day, Praying, God Help Me, Grace And Mercy

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

Topics: Kindness, Love Everyone, Christian Love

The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

Topics: Faith, Christian, Inspiration, Christian Truth

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

Topics: Powerful, Prayer, Giving, Powerful Prayer

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Topics: Mean, Holiness, Ordinary Things, Faith And Love, Extraordinary Things

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

Topics: Jesus, First Love, Order

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

Topics: Christian, Way, Worthy

Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

Topics: Brother, Able, Complacency, Stripping Away

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, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

Topics: Father, Giving, Justice, Church Fathers

Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!

Topics: Brother, Evil, Suffering

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Topics: Generosity, Limits, Helping, God Help Me, Talking To God

Ask Jesus what he wants from you and be brave!

Topics: Jesus, Brave, Want

Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.

Topics: Faith, Jesus, Inspiration, Jesus Love, Christian Love

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

Topics: May, Indifference, Globalization

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

Topics: Jesus, Catholic, Arms, Risen

You cannot insult the faith of others.

Topics: Insult

I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities.

Topics: Strong, Earthquakes, People, Closeness

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

Topics: Mother, Children, War, Against War, Sacrificial Love

Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.

Topics: Grace, Baptism

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

Topics: Christian, Community, Church, Christian Community

The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.

Topics: Christian, Focus, World

Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.

Topics: Rocks, Christ

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

Topics: Doors, Forgiving, Certain

God never tires of forgiving us.

Topics: Forgiving, Tire, Apostolic, Personal Relationship With God

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Topics: Humility, Pride, Men, Christian Humility

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Topics: Desire, May, Violence

Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian

Topics: Christian, Knowing, Sometimes

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

Topics: People, Bricks, Building, Inspirational Family

The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom...and it is unstoppable.

Topics: Real, Empowering, Doe, Death Bed

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

Topics: Asia, Filipino, Outstanding

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Differences, Way

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others,

Topics: Sacrifice, Helping Others, Good Times

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

Topics: Economic Inequality, Tables, Remember

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

Topics: Jesus, May, Wealth, True Wealth

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

Topics: Jesus, Lord, Capable

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Topics: Prayer, Iraq, Generosity

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

Topics: Humanity, Pawns, Migrants

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.

Topics: Evil, Humanity, World

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

Topics: Thinking, Order, Catholic

The fact is, woman was taken from a rib.

Topics: Taken, Facts, Ribs

God is not afraid of new things.

Topics: Not Afraid

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

Topics: Men, Rights, Use, Human Dignity, Fundamental Rights

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.

Topics: Running, Law, Risk, Inconsistent, Creation And Evolution

To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.

Topics: Wise, Good Life, Thinking

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Topics: Heart, Biblical, Voice, Social Inequality, Social Structure

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

Topics: Evolution, Creation, Evolve

May the deepest spiritual values of the Filipino people continue to find expression in your efforts to provide your fellow citizens with an integral human development.  In this way, each person will be able to fulfill his or her potential, and thus contribute wisely and well to the future of this country.

Topics: Spiritual, Country, Expression, Spiritual Values, Filipino

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

Topics: Christ, Mary, Unconditional

I have great love for St. Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have a statue of St. Joseph sleeping. Even when he is asleep, he is taking care of the church! Yes! We know that he can do that. So when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a little note and I put it underneath St. Joseph, so that he can dream about it! In other words I tell him: pray for this problem!

Topics: Dream, Writing, Sleep

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war

Topics: Powerful, War, People

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.

Topics: Men, Names, Looks, Generic

Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God.

Topics: Believe, Humility, Judging

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Topics: Rights, Terrorism, Economic, Human Rights Day

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Topics: Children, Heart, Blessing

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Topics: Brother, Jesus, Body, Another Way

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.

Topics: Profound, Decision, Important

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Topics: Spiteful, Vindictive, Malicious

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.

Topics: Men, Sick, Risk

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Topics: Young, Used, Tango

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

source: - Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black

Topics: Trust, Weed, Land

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Topics: Men, Focus, Risk, Exaggerated

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Topics: Faithful, Church, Life Is, Inconsistency, Undermining

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Topics: Men, Selfishness, World, Love Oneself

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Topics: Christian, Doe, Praying

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Topics: Light, Soul, Grace

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Topics: Government, People, Acting

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Topics: Dedication, Noble, Common, Practise

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Topics: Humble, Men, Order, Good Governance

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Topics: Humble, Mean, People, False Prophets

Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Topics: Jesus, Children, Pro Life

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Topics: Way, World, Spread, Corners Of The World

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Gay, Doe, Accompany, Approved

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Topics: Love, Family, Happiness, Excluded

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.

Topics: Drug, Trying, Vices, Certainty In Life

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Topics: Christian, Jesus, Truth Is

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Topics: Church, Nests, Mediocrity

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Topics: Views, Light, Darkness, Divine Light

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Topics: Littles, World, Cold

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.

Topics: Attitude, Vanity, Church, Worldly Things, Showing Off

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

Topics: Mercy, Lord, Torture, Chamber

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Topics: Brother, Children, Son

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Topics: Thought Provoking, Decision, Waiting

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.

Topics: Teacher, Jesus, Father, Abba

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?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Topics: Gay, Looks, Doe

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that god has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

Topics: Dream, Religious, People

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

Topics: Justice, People, Growth, Inclusiveness, Economic Growth

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Topics: Church, Poor

God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

Topics: Forgiving, Tire, Mercy

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Topics: Trying, Problem, Progressive, Eliminating

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

Topics: Couple, Men, Together, Married Couples

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

Topics: Jesus, Joy, World

Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

Topics: Responsibility, Challenges, Ephemeral

We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect on the problem of thrown away and wasted food to identify ways and means that, by seriously addressing this issue, are a vehicle of solidarity and sharing with the needy.

Topics: Mean, Issues, Tables

If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?

Topics: Gay, Judging, Lord

Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.

Topics: Letting Go, Jesus, Joy, Proclaiming

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 with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down,

Topics: Thinking, Creative, Community, Church Community

An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.

Topics: Desire, World, Changing The World, Deep Desire, Desire To Change

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

Topics: Greatness, Way, Poverty

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

Topics: Christian, Community, Devil, Christian Community

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Topics: Christian, Ambition, Tendencies

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

Topics: Jesus, Forgiving, Weakness, Lord Forgive Me, God Is Able

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

Topics: Spiritual, Poverty, Prosperity

Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.

Topics: Heart, Doors, People

Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.

Topics: Catholic Pro Life

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Topics: Love You, Sin, Lord

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

Topics: Jesus, Mercy

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Light, Modern Slavery, Catholic Pro Life

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend him or herself.

Topics: Abortion, Firsts, Life Is, Respect Life, Catholic Pro Life

It is God who gives life.  Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.

Topics: Mother, Giving, And Love

Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

Topics: Elderly, Order, Two, Income Inequality, Income Redistribution

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, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

Topics: Religious, Grandparent, Important, Privileged, Passing On

Not only would I say that the family is important for the evangelization of the new world. The family is important, and it is necessary for the survival of humanity. Without the family, the cultural survival of the human race would be at risk. The family, whether we like it or not, is the foundation.

Topics: Race, Humanity, Risk

We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

Topics: People, Suffering, Looks

We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre (of an economic system) as God wants, not money The world has become an idolator of this god called money To defend this economic culture, a throwaway culture has been installed. We throw away grandparents, and we throw away young people. We have to say no to his throwaway culture. We want a just system that helps everyone.

Topics: Men, Grandparent, People

The growth of equality … calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor, which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality.

Topics: Simple, Decision, Growth

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

Topics: Heart, World, Praying, Pray For Peace

Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!

Topics: People, Choices, Have Faith, Life Choices

You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise, outlined neatly. Life is complicated; it consists of grace and sin. He who does not sin is not human. We all make mistakes and we need to recognise our weakness. A religious who recognises himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness that he is called to give, rather he reinforces it, and this is good for everyone. What I expect of you therefore is to give witness. I want this special witness from religious.

Topics: Religious, Real, Mistake, Life Is Complicated, We All Make Mistakes

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

Topics: Doors, Church, John Paul Ii, John Paul, Ordination

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep,

Topics: Humanity, Needs

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,

Topics: War, World, Today, Massacres, Third World War

It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about how many children are dying of hunger in the world.

Topics: Hurt, Children, Humble

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Topics: People, Faithful, Young, Fruitfulness, Authentic Happiness

If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.

Topics: Silence, Lord, Approach

The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.

Topics: Heart, World, Today

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Heart, Joy

More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: 'Give them something to eat.'

Topics: Jesus, Doors, People, False Sense Of Security

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Topics: Christmas, Religious, Light, Memorable Christmas, Christian Christmas

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

Topics: Order, Justice, Waiting, Causes Of Poverty

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

Topics: Children, War, Thinking, Shattering, Anti War

If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our heart will 'light up' with a joy that spreads to everyone around us.

Topics: Heart, Light, Joy

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.

Topics: Satan, Calumny

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

Topics: Use, Fundamentals, Dignity

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

Topics: Opportunity, Stronger, Church, Wince

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

Topics: Christian, Honest, Workplace

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

Topics: Lord, Superficial, Lukewarm

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

Topics: Children, May, Forget

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

Topics: Republic, Praying, Sudan, Pray For Peace

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.

Topics: Order, Giving, Church

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

Topics: Desire, World, Looks

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

Topics: Christian, Joy, Chance, Everyday Life

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Topics: Fragility, Weakness, Doe

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Topics: Stories, Salvation, Offers

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

Topics: Encounters, Internet, Possibility

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Topics: Church, Mercy, Forgiven

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

Topics: Journey, Life Is A Journey, Life Is

Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

Topics: Forgiving, Needs, Praying

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Topics: Unhappy, Way, Seeking Happiness, Material Things, Being Unhappy

Peace is the language we must speak.

Topics: Language, Speak

If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

Topics: Jesus, Able, Messages

The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.

Topics: Christian, Space, Evil, Christian Living

What God cares about most is that we are His friends.

Topics: Care

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

Topics: Joy, Wish, Quiet, Quiet Life

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

Topics: Prayer, Silence, Scripture

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

Topics: Christian, Today, Revolutionary, Great Christian

Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.

Topics: Teacher, Jesus, Way, Truth And Life

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

Topics: Believe, Evil, Faces

Prayer is all-powerful. Let us use it to bring peace to the Middle East and peace to the world.

Topics: Powerful, Prayer, East

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

Topics: Touching, Suffering, Trying, Samaritans

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 world, and I also invite each person, including our fellow Christians, followers of other religions and all men of good will, to participate, in whatever way they can, in this initiative.

Topics: Christian, Prayer, Men

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

Topics: Voice, Silence, Would Be, Moment Of Silence, Christian Christmas

Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.

Topics: Sri Lanka, Philippines, Praying

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

Topics: Men, Tasks, Men And Women

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

Topics: Jesus, Love Is, Giving, Fraternal

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

Topics: Heart, People, Joy, Superhuman

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

Topics: Prayer, Understanding, May, Mutual Understanding, Family Prayer

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

Topics: Christian, Love Is, Praying

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

Topics: Christian, Commitment, Deeds

Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.

Topics: Decision, Sometimes, Lord

The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

Topics: Christian, Violence, And Love, Truth And Love, True Strength

Jesus is the sun and Mary is the dawn announcing his rising.

Topics: Jesus, Rising, Sun, Announcing