“One does not proclaim the Gospel standing still, locked in an office, at one’s desk or at one’s computer, arguing like ‘keyboard warriors’ and replacing the creativity of proclamation with copy-and-paste ideas,” the pope said.
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Pope Francis: This Holy Week, do some spring cleaning for your soul
“Look at the closet of your soul—how many useless things you have, how many stupid illusions,” the pope said. “Let us return to simplicity, to things that are true, that don’t need to be made-up.”
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Pope Francis: An elegant Catholic is not a holy Catholic
In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis reveals how Paul of Tarsus was the exemplary witness to what passion for the Gospel means, and he has the zeal to preach about Jesus and help others.
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Pope Francis: We need a church that evangelizes herself
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 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.”