Pope Francis
Pope Francis
Pope Francisis the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III, who died in 741...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth17 December 1936
CityBuenos Aires, Argentina
All it takes is one good person to restore hope.
To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.
When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God’s simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you.
Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.
Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.
The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard by everyone who can still distinguish between good and evil.
There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.
Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus.
It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.
The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.
When everything falls apart, only one thing sustains our hope: God loves us, he loves everyone!
A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.