Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!
Pope FrancisWe all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.
Pope FrancisPeace is handcrafted. It is made every day. Also friendship among people, mutual knowledge, esteem, is handcrafted. It's made every day. Respect the other, say that which one thinks, but with respect, but walk together.
Pope FrancisEach of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.
Pope FrancisThe 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.
Pope FrancisSometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lordโs wounds at armโs length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other peopleโs lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.
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