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“Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.”

People Moments Joy Growth Challenges Church Difficulty Ill Good Times Ill Health

Author:Pope Francis

“The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.”

People Wells States Challenges Church United United States Understood Staying Detached

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“Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church it has not valued much.”

Believe Important Country America I Believe Church Common South Preparation Ministry South America Pastoral Ministry

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“Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.”

Mean Church Receiving Communion Integrating

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“I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'”

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“I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.”

Thinking Children Persons Past Church Poor Gay Weapons Labor Blessed Apologizing Offended

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“10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.”

Said Whole Church Needed Holy Clean Dirt Friday John Paul John Paul Ii

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“In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't care to "make-up" his answer, he said exactly the same thing [that we needed to clean up the dirt of the Church]. He was the brave one who helped so many open this door. So, I want to remember him because sometimes we forget about this hidden works that were the foundations for "taking the lid off the pot."”

Want Said Sometimes Care Remember Church Answers Forget Knowing Doors Stupid Needed Mass Foundation Brave Clean Despite Candidates Pot Dirt Pope Brave One

Author:Pope Francis

“[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.”

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“The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'”

Said Church Rome Pope

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“From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.”

Helping Fighting Church Pieces Lessons News Soldier Scared Borders Phrases Agreement Rome Wounded Accord Entirety Hermeneutics

Author:Pope Francis

“Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much.”

“The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded families, remarried families, etc. But of this one mustn't forget the children in the middle. They are the first victims, both in the wounds, and in the conditions of poverty, of work.”

Firsts Children Used Church Forget Poverty Middle Conditions Keys Victim Wounds Phrases Etc Wounded Integrating

Author:Pope Francis

“I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.”

People World Want Grows Church Lord Healthy Being True Priests Mexican Bishops Guadalupe

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“I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.”

People Church Distance Plague

Author:Pope Francis

“I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.”

Has Beens Hurt Church Streets Security Dirty Confined Unhealthy Clinging Bruised

Book:The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.”

People Trying Mean Church Digital Reach Out Far Away

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“We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a link in this chain of love. And if we do not understand this, we have understood nothing of what the Church is.”

Ifs Men Stories Inspiration Faith Church Middle Understood Men And Women Christian Inspirational Love Story Chains Links

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“God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.”

Thinking Way Inspiration Faith Church Accepting Accomplish Unpredictable Way Of Thinking Calculations Unruly

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.”

People Should Inspiration Joy Faith Wish Grows Church Share Attraction Obligation Horizon Invites Delicious Seeming Banquets Proselytizing

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.”

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

Church Poor

Author:Pope Francis

“Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.”

Ifs Thinking Way Helping Community Church Poor Creative Risk Concern Dignity Reaching Cooperation Reach Out Breaking Down Church Community

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.”

“In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it.”

People Important Play Faces Young Church Levels Roles Source Essentials Fundamentals Remains Missions Passing Passings Cells Carrie Continental Source Of Strength Passing On

Author:Pope Francis

“If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers.”

Ifs Should Wells Persons Problem Church Brother Judging Gay Catholic Good Will Catholic Church Integrated Orientation Marginalized Catechism

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“On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.”

Said Church Doors John Paul John Paul Ii Ordination

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“We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they have something of the employee in them, something of the bureaucrat in them and this is not good for the Church. Please be careful you don’t fall into this! You are becoming pastors in the image of Jesus, the good pastor. Your aim is to resemble him and act on behalf of him amidst his flock, letting his sheep graze.”

Way Whole Fall Jesus Church Half Gone Becoming Please Aim Careful Manage Employee Priests Be Careful Sheep Pastor Behalf Flocks Bureaucrats Half Way

Author:Pope Francis

“Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.”

Christian Culture Evil Church Memories Moral Doubt Defense Abortion Rome Pope Modernity Pagan Moral Evil

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“If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.”

Ifs Giving Father Church Justice Poor Century Treats Thirds Social Justice Passages Marxist Church Fathers

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“This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.”

Sometimes Courses Church Justice Poor Happened Concern Tradition Social Justice Invention Ideology Communism

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“It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.”

Opportunity Church Stronger Wince

Book:Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life

Source: Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life

“We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.”

Needs Giving Order Church Witness Disciple

Book:The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.”

Church Mercy Forgiven

Author:Pope Francis

“You can't have Christ without the Church.”

Christ Church

Author:Pope Francis

“I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world, and I also invite each person, including our fellow Christians, followers of other religions and all men of good will, to participate, in whatever way they can, in this initiative.”

Men World Way Persons Whole Christian Church Prayer Middle Decided Fellows Including East Followers Invites Middle East Initiative Syria Good Will Fasting

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“All Catholics must ask themselves what they personally have done lately to build up the holiness of the church and ensure people feel welcomed and loved in it.”

People Feels Done Asks Church Catholic Holiness

Author:Pope Francis

“We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.”

Way Mean Doe Joy Turns Church Aim Extraordinary God Love Performing Holiness Sinner Extraordinary Things

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“Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.”

“The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.”

Desire Church One Thing Catholic Charity Orthodox Rome Communion Catholic Church Bishops Orthodox Church

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“In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.”

Years May God Christian Faith Church Religious Lord Praying Catholic Christian Inspirational God Love God's Love True Family

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“A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.”

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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.”

Thinking Years Spiritual Church Teaching Humility Gratitude Goodness Affection Guidance Heritage Gentleness Predecessors Deep Gratitude Benedict Xvi

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“We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”

Fall House Church Moral Balance Losing Cards Fragrance Freshness Edifice House Of Cards

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“The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.”

Needs Joy Church Creativity Enthusiasm Characteristics Need You

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“In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.”

“The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.”

Church Bears Witness Vitality Philippines Youthfulness

Author:Pope Francis

“Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.”

People Young Church Aim Dear Great Things Generosity Aim High Your Generosity

Book:The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“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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“Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.”

Years Ends Mother Asks Church Teach Holy Conscience Grateful Be Grateful Examination Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

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