Pope Francis: We must be aware that the people to whom evangelization is addressed are not only others, those who profess other faiths or who profess none, but also ourselves, believers in Christ.
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Pope Francis: In the creed we say we believe in an ‘apostolic church.’ What does that mean?
So, what does it mean to be apostles? It means being sent for a mission.
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Pope Francis: What connects the church’s very first council and Vatican II? Evangelization.
Pope Francis continues his audiences on evangelization: It is always an “ecclesial service, never solitary, never isolated, never individualistic.”
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Pope Francis: ‘The ashes remind us who we are.’
“The rite of the imposition of ashes serves as the beginning of this return journey. It exhorts us to do two things: to return to the truth about ourselves and to return to God and to our brothers and sisters.”
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Pope Francis: The Gospel is not an ideology—and the church isn’t a parliament
“If you take refuge in an idea, in an ideology, whether right or left or center, you are making the Gospel a political party, an ideology, a club of people,” Pope Francis said during his general audience on Feb. 22.
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Pope Francis: Lent (and the synod) must lead us to transformation
In his Lenten message for 2023, Pope Francis compares the ongoing synodal process to the strenuous mountain trek embarked in the Gospel of Transfiguration, with what awaits us at the end better revealing God’s will and our mission to the church.
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Pope Francis: Evangelizing is about showing Jesus, not talking about Jesus
Pope Francis explains the passion for evangelizing, which means that the disciples simultaneously stay with Jesus and go forth, having been sent by him.
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Pope Francis on his trip to Africa: God places his hope in the humble
In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis reveals what he said on his apostolic journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, praying that “the seeds of God’s Kingdom of love, justice and peace may germinate.”
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Pope Francis: What should we do for people who leave the church? Jesus shows us the way.
In his second general audience on evangelization, Pope Francis explains how Jesus is a model of evangelization, whose “pastoral heart beats for the person who is lost and far away.”
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Read: Pope Francis begins new catechesis on ‘the passion for evangelization’
In his Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis begins a new cycle of catechesis on apostolic zeal, “a vital dimension for the Church.”