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Pope Francis Quotes

Argentinian - Clergyman | December 17, 1936 -

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Church Poor Would Like How Oh

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

Good Now Creation Right Very

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

Truth People Young Young People Just

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

Good Doing Doing Good Creation Root

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Mother Church Dream I Dream

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

Politics Religion Believe Church Go

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

Love God Today Moral Sometimes

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Faith Today Past View Look Security

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.

Pride Arrogance Church Vanity Danger

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Good Faith Decision Evil Action Sin

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

Community Discipline Me Society Well

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Change God Virtue Responsible Thrift

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