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Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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Roman Catholic Priest
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.
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You just can’t say that, just as you can’t say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups.
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Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.
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The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.
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Worshipping the Lord means giving him the place that he must have worshipping the Lord means stating, believing-not only by our words- that he alone truly guides our lives worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before him that he is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.
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To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.
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When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.
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May the deepest spiritual values of the Filipino people continue to find expression in your efforts to provide your fellow citizens with an integral human development. In this way, each person will be able to fulfill his or her potential, and thus contribute wisely and well to the future of this country.
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Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.
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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
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If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.
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It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community
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I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.
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Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.
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Do good: we will meet one another there.
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No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.
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I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.
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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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May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.
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