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.
Pope FrancisLove makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.
Pope FrancisThe Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christโs cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.
Pope FrancisDear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.
Pope FrancisThe family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.
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 FrancisThose 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.
Pope Francis