Pope Francis Quotes

Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.

And now I would like to give the blessing, but first - first I ask a favor of you: before the Bishop blesses his people, I ask you to pray to the Lord that he will bless me: the prayer of the people asking the blessing for their Bishop.

This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.

Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.

Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

With God, nothing is lost; but without him, everything is lost.

Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.

We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.