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
The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.
A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!
We need courage if we are to be faithful to the Gospel.
Each of us is a masterpiece of God's creation
Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?
Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.
The challenge of life is to learn how to love
We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ.
In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty!
Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.
Let love simply bloom... and it is unstoppable.
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.
Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.
Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.