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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his hands. He conducted all the investigations, and went on, went on, went on, until he couldn't go any further in the execution.
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There are some things we really need to take care of: the children, and grandparents. Children, whether they are young or older, they are the strength that moves us forward. We place our hope in them.Grandparents are the living memory of the family. They passed on the faith, they transmitted the faith, to us.
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Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
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Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.
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To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.
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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.
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If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.
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Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.
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Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.
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Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
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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.
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Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.
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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.
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Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.
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Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.
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In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
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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.
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The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.
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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.
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Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms.
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