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
A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.
War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!
When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.
Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.
Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!
The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.
We are all missionary disciples
Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.
A Christian who does not protect creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God; that work that was born from the love of God for us. ... And this is the first response to the first creation: protect creation, make it grow.
Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams?
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.
Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously