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When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?

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Pope Francis
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
Chemist
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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Pope Francis I
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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.
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If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.
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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.
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Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.
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Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.
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Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope.
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The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.
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Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.
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The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'
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The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them better and saw the good they do.
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Let us say Yes to life and not death. Let us say Yes to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say Yes to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.
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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.
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
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We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you.' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attracting, not proselytizing.
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The key that opens the door to the faith is prayer.
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Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.
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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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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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Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
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One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.
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