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An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

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Pope Francis
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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Roman Catholic Priest
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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Pope Francis I
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Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.
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If we live according to the law an eye for an eye..., we will never escape from the spiral of evil.
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I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.
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Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.
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Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!
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How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!
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The economic part is the one that came out first because there were some problems about which the press spoke a lot.
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He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.
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Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No.
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Do I guard myself, my heart, my feelings, my thoughts? Do I guard the treasure of grace? Do I guard the presence of the Holy Spirit in me? Or do I let go, feeling secure, believing that all is going well?
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You can't have Christ without the Church.
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No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.
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Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord.
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I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.
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Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life.
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Amid so many problems, even grave, may we not lose our hope in the infinite mercy of God.
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Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
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