We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?
Pope FrancisWe cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance
Pope FrancisI am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
Pope FrancisI had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.
Pope FrancisIt is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.
Pope Francis