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Pope Francis
Argentinian
Clergyman
Born:
Dec 17
,
1936
Church
God
Good
Me
People
You
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
Pope Francis
Spiritual
World
Sickness
Church
Own
Sick
Wrapped
Like
Becomes
Up
Avoid
Grows
Need
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.
Pope Francis
Politics
Good
Dedication
Vocation
Martyrdom
Noble
Practise
Testimony
Die
Common
Common Good
Should
Requires
Activity
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Pope Francis
Truth
People
Expediency
Young
Attracted
Just
Convenience
Young People
Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.
Pope Francis
Life
Remember
Witness
Gospel
Without
Tangible
Cannot
Proclaim
Us
Let Us
Jesus
My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.
Pope Francis
Me
Problems
Way
Never
Making
Making Decisions
Been
Led
Quick
Authoritarian
Accused
Being
Decisions
Manner
Created
Serious
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Pope Francis
Politics
Best
Good
Prayer
Those
Catholic
Himself
Govern
Offer
Offering
Who
If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.
Pope Francis
Health
People
Fall
Nothing
Say
Hunger
Eat
People Say
Investments
Tragedy
Die
Going
Banks
Poor
Poor Health
Suffer
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
Pope Francis
Life
Service
God
Religion
People
Free
Creation
Possible
Spiritually
Opinion
Person
Us
Interfere
Express
Right
Set
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
Pope Francis
God
Good
Met
Says
Must
Find
All Things
Total
Seek
Touched
Uncertainty
Area
He
Still
Quest
Person
Then
Certainty
Things
Margin
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
Pope Francis
Faith
Good
Obey
Decision
Evil
Face
Goodness
Action
Our
Those
Perceived
Fact
Sin
Also
Exists
Malice
Goes
Listen
In Fact
Decide
Against
Means
Who
Conscience
He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
Pope Francis
Devil
He
Lord
Pray
Prays
Who
We just cannot worry about ourselves.
Pope Francis
Worry
Ourselves
About
Just
Cannot
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
Pope Francis
Time
Gay
Marriage
Son
Abortion
Church
Insist
Related
Gay Marriage
We Cannot
About
Only
Clear
Talk
Am
Issues
Methods
Contraceptive
Cannot
Use
Teaching
Necessary
I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.
Pope Francis
Mother
Church
Dream
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
Pope Francis
Today
Faith
Try
Long
Ideology
Past
Other
Way
Those
Static
Security
Solutions
Exaggerated
Recover
Longer
Look
Ideologies
Disciplinarian
Becomes
Always
Exists
View
Who
Among
Things
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
Pope Francis
Better
Mercy
Torture
Lord
Motivates
Place
Which
Us
Chamber
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Pope Francis
Church
Mediocrity
Our
Must
Nest
Bosom
Protecting
Reduce
Universal
Work ends up dehumanizing people.
Pope Francis
Work
People
Up
Ends
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Pope Francis
Work
People
Society
Sundays
More
More And More
More People
Consumer
Imposed
Consequence
Competitiveness
Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.
Pope Francis
Today
Food
News
Rest
Way
Scandals
Easy
Children
While
Who
Many
Grave
Things
If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.
Pope Francis
God
Memory
Courage
Will
Past
Nothing
Christian
Everything
Must
Find
Area
Open
He
Clear
New
Safe
Tradition
Up
Wants
Then
Us
Help
Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!
Pope Francis
Spiritual
Soul
Church
I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.
Pope Francis
Hope
Progress
Jews
Relations
Collaboration
Has-Been
Spirit
Council
Vatican
Between
Since
Sincerely
Renewed
Catholics
Been
Contribute
Second
A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.
Pope Francis
Love
Heart
Words
Mother
Church
Before
Pay
Defends
Herself
Those
Scandals
Attention
Doing
Wonder
Hearts
Any
Whether
Much
Much Attention
Who
Filled
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
Pope Francis
Church
Would
Like
How
Oh
Poor
If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.
Pope Francis
Think
Would
Catholicism
Issue
Were
Cultural
Review
Western
Option
Celibacy
Much
Reasons
Universal
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