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Mary is more important than the apostles.

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
Chemist
Jesuit
Roman Catholic Priest
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Buenos Aires
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Francisco
Pope Francis I
Pope Francis
Jorge Bergoglio
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Mary
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It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.
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We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world.
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I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.
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You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!
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I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.
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Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.
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If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.
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Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.
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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.
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Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the Advocate of Christian Memory, a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.
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I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.
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The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
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There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.
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God’s goodness is stronger than any evil!
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I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.
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Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.
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Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.
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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.
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