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
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.
Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.
How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.
At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!
We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others
The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ’s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.
Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!
Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!
Go, do not be afraid and serve
We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.
No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.
We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!
A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.
Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?