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
It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car...
Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.
If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.
I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.
As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.
Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life.
You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!
The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.
I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.
If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each ... that's good.
If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.
Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.
Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.
As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.