Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!
Pope FrancisI love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.
Pope FrancisThe worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away.
Pope FrancisIf I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.
Pope Francis