Prayer is all-powerful. Let us use it to bring peace to the Middle East and peace to the world.
Pope FrancisHe looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.
Pope FrancisThe victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.
Pope FrancisA society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.
Pope FrancisPolitics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis... the Christian is a person who remembers: ... He continually says to the Lord: 'Yes, I want the commandments, I want your will, I will follow you'. He is a man of the covenant, and we celebrate the covenant, every day " in the Mass: thus a Christian is "a woman, a man of the Eucharist".
Pope Francis