Joseph teaches us this: “Do not look so much at the things that the world praises, look into the corners, look in the shadows, look at the peripheries, at what the world does not want.”
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Pope Francis: We all know how to pray to God the Father and Jesus. But what about the Holy Spirit?
The prayer to the Holy Spirit is spontaneous: it needs to come from your heart. In difficult moments, you need to ask: “Holy Spirit, come.”
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Pope Francis: ‘Take a look at yourself!’ before criticizing other people
“How easy it is to criticize others!” Pope Francis said at his Nov. 3 general audience. “But there are people who seem to have a degree in gossip. Each and every day they criticize others.”
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Pope Francis’ COP26 message: ‘There is no time to waste’ on climate change
“The young, who in recent years have strongly urged us to act, will only inherit the planet we choose to leave to them,” the pope said in his message for the Glasgow climate conference.
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Pope Francis: We are freed by service, not doing whatever we want
“Yet again, we find ourselves faced with the paradox of the Gospel: we are freed by serving, not in doing whatever we want.”
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Pope Francis: The world needs more vaccines and less war.
Speaking at the Colosseum in Rome today, Pope Francis addressed leaders of the world’s religions and governments, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the topic of peace and human fraternity.
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Pope Francis: We all become sinners — but we are fundamentally saints.
“Allow me to say, we are saints,” the pope said. ”But then, by our actions, we become sinners. But, fundamentally, we are saints.”
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Pope Francis: Our life should be a pilgrimage of hope
Today I would like to speak to you about my Apostolic Journey in Budapest and in Slovakia. I would summarize it as follows: it was a pilgrimage of prayer, a pilgrimage to the roots, a pilgrimage of hope.
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Pope Francis: Following rigid rules doesn’t lead to holiness.
Let us ask for the wisdom always to be aware of God’s love for us and to turn away the fundamentalists who propose to us a life of artificial asceticism.
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Pope Francis: Hypocrisy in the church is ‘particularly detestable’
Hypocrisy in the Church is particularly detestable; and unfortunately, hypocrisy exists in the Church and there are many hypocritical Christians and ministers.