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
Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That’s why they followed him.
The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.
A society can be judged by the way it treats its children.
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.
Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.
Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.
In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.
My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.
Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.
Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation
Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.