Pope Francis Quotes
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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.
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It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
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If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.
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It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
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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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The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.
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The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.
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Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.
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The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
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Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.
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I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
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The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great as to change the course of human history.
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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
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There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
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Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
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Transcendence remains because that light, all in everything, transcends the universe and the species it inhabits at this stage.
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I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.
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This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.
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I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.
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I encourage you to welcome refugees into your homes and communities, so that their first experience of Europe is not the traumatic experience of sleeping cold on the streets, but one of warm welcome.
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If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
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Let us turn our backs on power and treachery.
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We all have the duty to do good.
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Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.