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 men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.
Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.
Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.
The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.
To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.
Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more
Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.
Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.
Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.