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Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
Chemist
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Buenos Aires
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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Pope Francis I
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Jorge Bergoglio
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Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?
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Jesus is the sun and Mary is the dawn announcing his rising.
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Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.
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So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent I accompany you silently, with my heart...
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How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.
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Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.
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There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain it because the word 'people' is not a logical category, it's a mythical category.
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God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.
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I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.
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The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.
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God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
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A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God
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Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.
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My people are poor and I am one of them.
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It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community
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Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'
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You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.
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If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and morelet us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.
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Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.
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