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Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. Elected on March 13, 2013, he is the first pope from the Americas, the Southern Hemisphere, and the Jesuit order. Known for his humility, focus on the poor, and social justice, he advocates for church reform, environmental protection, and interfaith dialogue. His papacy addresses global issues like the COVID-19 pandemic and migration crises.

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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.”

Way Wells Body Spirit Asks Jesus Teach Share Brother Testimony Another Way Your Brother

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“We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.”

Important Church Decision Genius Needed Harder Profound Theology Feminine Work Harder Important Decisions

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.”

Wretched Malicious Vindictive Spiteful

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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 And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

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“I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.”

Young Used Tango

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“We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.”

World Needs Spiritual Grows Church Sick Sickness

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“Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.”

Persons Grows Space Land Trust Seeds Weed Trust In God Thorns

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.”

Men Doe Sometimes Sin Focus Risk Becoming News Men And Women Negative Aspect Ill Spread Tendencies Journalist Scandal Exaggerated

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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.”

Life Is Church Faithful Pastor Credibility Inconsistency Undermining

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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!”

Might Flight Joyful Flight Attendant

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“We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.”

Men World Equal Increase Oneself Selfishness Exceed Good Will Expertise Love Oneself

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“A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.”

Doe Christian Praying Good Christian

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“Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.”

Soul Reason Light Consciousness Grace Amount

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“The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

People Want Government Acting Officials Pastor Bureaucrats Clergy Government Officials

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“In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.”

People Children Today Mother Church Salvation Regions Priests Hypocrite Sanctity Single Mother Sanctity Of Marriage

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“Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.”

Strong Weak Stronger Liberalism Excluded

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“Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.”

Should Dies Common Activity Noble Dedication Testimony Vocation Common Good Martyrdom Practise

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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.”

Agree Collaborators

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“Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.”

People Ifs Men Two Government Order Asks Opinion Path Humble Be Good Every Man Diverse Governance Good Governance

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“If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.”

People Ifs Mean Left Answers Rooms Leader Lord Doubt Humble Proof Certainty Prophet Great Leader Moses Be Humble False Prophets

Author:Pope Francis

“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!”

Father Christ Lord Blood Catholic Atheist Redeemed

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“Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.”

Children Faces Jesus Christ Born Lord Jesus Christ Pro Life

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“Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.”

World Way Corners Spread Word Of God New Ways Corners Of The World

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“A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.”

Ifs Inspirational Looks Persons Doe Existence Gay Rejects Lgbt Homosexuality Approved Provocative

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“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”

People Love Needs Helping Happiness Young Peace Love Is Poor Family Spread Excluded

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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.”

Ifs Trying Humans Persons Has Beens Drug Vices Disaster Destroyed Certainty Human Life Dogmatic Certainty In Life

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.”

Church Leader Court Excited Flattered Leprosy Narcissus Courtiers

Author:Pope Francis

“Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.”

Important Action Fields Activity

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“Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.”

Christian Jesus Christ Truth Is Jesus Christ God's Love Christian Faith

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“We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”

Church Universal Mediocrity Nests Bosoms

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.”

Ifs Doe Light Views Darkness Divine Point Of View Sparks Divine Light

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“Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.”

People Way Play Together Culture Sports Enjoy Relax Leisure Another Way Listening To Music Gratification Time To Relax

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“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”

World Littles Bits Cold Little Bit Mercy

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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.”

Figures Speech Definitions Genre Sinner Accurate Figures Of Speech Literary Genre

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.”

Spirituality Church Sin Attitude Worst Committed Vanity Worldly Showing Off Worldly Things

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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.”

Mean Helping Feet

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

Nature Environment Creation Right Now Relation Very Good Natural Environment

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“The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.”

Lord Mercy Torture Chamber

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.”

Men Children Soul Feelings Son Brother Brotherhood Child Of God Instill

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“I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Made Waiting Decision Thought Provoking Wrong Things Decisions Made

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.”

Thinking World Giving Littles Poverty Resources Riches These Days Scandal World Poverty Wealth And Poverty

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“In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.”

People Men Needs Firsts America Taken Europe Increase Selfish Atmosphere Dependency Personal Power

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“The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.”

Humans Found Goal Economy Worship Golden Dictatorship Lacking Cult Heartless Calves Faceless

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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.”

Stills Church Lord Roles Doors Journey Special Opening Opening Doors

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“Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.”

Lord Our Lives Idols Centre Highways Stripping

Book:Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

“If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?... No one should marginalize these people for this, they must be integrated into society.”

People Ifs Lord Judging Gay Good Will Integrated

Author:Pope Francis

“My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.”

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.”

Want Care Bless Pope

Author:Pope Francis

“Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.”

Remember Jesus Witness Tangible

Book:The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ

Source: The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ

“More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.”

People Consequence Consumers Sunday Competitiveness

Author:Pope Francis

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