As a Catholic, do I live this unity of the church? Or does not concern me because I am closed within my own small group or within myself?
– Pope Francis
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As a Catholic, do I live this unity of the church? Or does not concern me because I am closed within my own small group or within myself?
– Pope Francis
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The Church is authentic and credible only when she becomes a convincing herald of mercy.
– Pope Francis, The Name of God Is Mercy
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The Holy Spirit draws us into the mystery of the living God and saves us from the threat of a church that is self referential, closed in on herself.
– Pope Francis
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“The people itself constitutes a subject. And the church is the people of God on the journey through history, with joys and sorrows. Thinking with the church, therefore, is my way of being a part of this people. And all the faithful, considered as a whole, are infallible in…
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“This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. And the church is Mother; the…
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“Humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love to preserve unity! These, these are the roads, the true roads of the Church. Let us listen to this again. Humility against vanity, against arrogance—humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love preserve unity.”
― Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy
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Humility against vanity, against arrogance – humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love preserve unity.
– Pope Francis
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The church is like a great orchestra in which there is a great variety. We are not all the same, and we do not all have two be the same. We are all different, varied, each of us with our own special qualities. And this is the beauty of…
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When I go to church, is it as though I were at a football match? Is it as though I were at the cinema? No!
– Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy
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A church that calls a welcome sinners with open arms, that gives courage and hope, or are we church closed in on herself? Are we a church where the love of God dwells, where one cast for the other, where one prays for the other?
– Pope Francis