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A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened the Church with his teaching, his goodness, his guidance, his faith, his humility, and his gentleness, which will remain a spiritual heritage for all.
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Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.
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You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!
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Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.
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Many of you have asked the Lord, looking at Him: Why, Lord? And the Lord answers to each one of you, to your heart, Christ responds with His heart. It's the only thing I can tell you. Let us look to Christ, He is the Lord and He understands us because He underwent all the trials that we go through.
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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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Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.
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The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power
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Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love it is like giving life.
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Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.
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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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From the way children are treated society can be judged.
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The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.
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God is not afraid of new things.
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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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The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity.., networks of solidarity which can expand to embrace and transform society by their prophetic witness.
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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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We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.
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The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.
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Let us be protectors of all of Gods Creatures
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