“Life is a right, not death, which must be welcomed, not administered,” Pope Francis said during his weekly audience. “And this ethical principle applies to, concerns everyone, not just Christians or believers.”
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Pope Francis: What it does (and doesn’t) mean to pray to a saint
In his Wednesday audience, Pope Francis spoke about the communion of saints, which he said does not include just those who are perfect, but also “the community of saved sinners.”
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Pope Francis to struggling parents: Don’t condemn your kids. Pray to St. Joseph instead.
In his Wednesday audience, Pope Francis remembered parents of children with different sexual orientations, with illnesses, who are struggling at school, and said, “Never condemn a child.”
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Pope Francis: God is not frightened by our sins
“Tenderness is something greater than the logic of the world. It is an unexpected way of doing justice,” Pope Francis said in his general audience on Jan. 19.
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Pope Francis: Workers who do hard labor have a special connection to Jesus and St. Joseph
“It is good to think about the fact that Jesus himself worked and had learned this craft from St. Joseph,” Pope Francis said in his Wednesday audience. “Today, we should ask ourselves what we can do to recover the value of work.”
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Pope Francis on Epiphany: Don’t get stuck in a spiritual parking lot. Faith is always moving forward.
“Sometimes we live in a spirit of a ‘parking lot’; we stay parked, without the impulse of desire that carries us forward. We do well to ask: where are we on our journey of faith?”
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Pope Francis: Adoption is among the highest forms of love. St. Joseph knew this.
“It is a risk, yes: having a child is always a risk, either naturally or by adoption,” Pope Francis said. ”But it is riskier not to have them.”
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Pope Francis at Midnight Mass: God comes into the world in littleness.
This is what we should ask Jesus for at Christmas: the grace of littleness.
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Pope Francis: This Christmas, remember that without humility, we will never find God
“Humility is the only way that leads us to God.”
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Pope Francis: Don’t be afraid of silence.
“Profoundness of the heart grows with silence, silence that is not mutism as I said, but which leaves space for wisdom, reflection and the Holy Spirit.”