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Pope Francis

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“Dear Brothers and Sisters, In a few moments I will have the joy of opening the Holy Door of Mercy. We carry out this act, so simple yet so highly symbolic, in the light of the word of God which we have just heard. That word highlights the primacy of grace.”
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“The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great as to change the course of human history.”
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“Wherever there are people, the Church is called to reach out to them and to bring the joy of the Gospel. … May our passing through the Holy Door today commit us to making our own the mercy of the Good Samaritan.”
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“In our age of profound change, the Church is called to offer its unique contribution, by making visible the signs of the presence and closeness of God. And the Jubilee is a favorable time for us all, for in contemplating the Divine Mercy, which surpasses every human limitation and shines on the darkness of sin, we can become more convincing and effective witnesses.”
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“This Jubilee is a privileged moment for the Church to learn to choose only ‘what pleases God most.’ And what is it that ‘pleases God most’? To forgive his children, to have mercy on them, so that they too might forgive their brothers and sisters, and become shining like torches of God’s mercy in the world.”
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“God’s joy is to forgive. God’s being is mercy. Therefore, over the course of this year we need to open our hearts, so that this love, this joy of God might fill us all with this mercy.”
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“Only a merciful Church shines! Were we to forget, even only for a moment, that mercy is ‘what pleases God most,’ all our efforts would be in vain, for we would become slaves of our institutions and our structures, however renewed they might be. We would always be slaves.”
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“Today, I don't think that there is a fear of Islam as such but of ISIS and its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam. It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew's Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.”
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Recorded in: INTERVIEW Pope Francis by Guillaume Goubert and Sébastien Maillard for La Croix (17 May 2016); translation by Stefan Gigacz.
“I encourage you to welcome refugees into your homes and communities, so that their first experience of Europe is not the traumatic experience of sleeping cold on the streets, but one of warm welcome.”
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Recorded in: Pope: welcoming refugees helps keeps us safe from terrorism", Lexington Herald-Leader (17 September 2016)
“Let us turn our backs on power and treachery.”
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Recorded in: As Reported by Vatican Insider, August 11, 2016
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel. … I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and I will give him the benefit of the doubt.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Pope Francis: Donald Trump 'is not Christian'", by Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News (18 February 2016)
“Every step, every effort, every test, every fall and every recovery has a sense within God’s design for salvation, as He wants life – not death – and joy – not pain – for His people … This doesn’t mean that he did everything and we don’t have to do anything.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ash Wednesday General Audience (1 March 2017), as quoted in "Pope Francis: ‘we do not go to heaven in a carriage’" at Vatican Radio (1 March 2017)
“Even inside the Holy Trinity they are all fighting behind closed doors, while outside the image is one of unity. (March 17, 2017)”
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Recorded in: Sandro Magister, Religione a bassa intensità, L'Espresso (April 30, 2017)
“I invite you not to build walls but bridges, to conquer evil with good, offence with forgiveness, to live in peace with everyone.”
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Recorded in: 18 March 2017 tweet
“Jesus made himself to be serpent; Jesus made himself to be sin.”
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Recorded in: Morning meditation in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Martae, 4 April 2017. As quoted in L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly ed. in English, n. 17, 28 April 2017.
“Some people think that - excuse my expression here - that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits. No. Parenthood is about being responsible. This is clear.”
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Recorded in: Said to the press on the flight back from the 2018 Papal visit to the Philippines in response to a question about what he would say to families who had more children than they could afford because the Church forbids art…
“Only by changing education can we change the world.”
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Recorded in: Address of Pope Francis to members of the Gravissimum Educationis Foundation, 25 June 2018 .
“A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. Rather, we are called to commit ourselves to ensure anti-Semitism is banned from the human community.”
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Recorded in: Address of Pope Francis during a meeting with Rabbis at the Vatican. Catholic News Agency, November 05, 2018
“The Gospel is an unbalanced doctrine. Beatitudes deserve the Nobel of imbalance.”
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Recorded in: Papa Francesco: a diocesi di Roma, “Beatitudini meritano il Nobel dello squilibrio; no al funzionalismo, al clericalismo e al gattopardismo“ (May 9, 2019)
“We can build any number of walls and close our doors in the vain effort to feel secure in our wealth, at the expense of those left outside. It will not be that way for ever. The ‘day of the Lord,’ as described by the prophets, will destroy the barriers created between nations and replace the arrogance of the few with the solidarity of many.”
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Recorded in: Message of the Holy Father Francis for the Third World Day of the Poor" (13 June 2019)
“We have caused a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself, including our own. [At the] United Nations Climate Action Summit ... governments will have the responsibility of showing the political will to take drastic measures.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in a UNFCCC Instagram post and in America Magazine (1 September 2019)
“We must not place the burden on the next generations to take on the problems caused by the previous ones. Instead, we should give them the opportunity to remember our generation as the one that renewed and acted on — with honest, responsible and courageous awareness — the fundamental need to collaborate in order to preserve and cultivate our common home. May we offer the next generation concrete reasons to hope and work for a good and dignified future!”
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Recorded in: Message to the Participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1 December 2019)
“(About the proclamation of a new dogma for the Marian title of Mediatrix of all graces): When they come to us with the story of declaring her this or making that dogma, let’s not get lost in foolishness.”
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Recorded in: San Martín, Inés. "Pope calls idea of declaring Mary co-redemptrix ‘foolishness’", Crux (December 13, 2019)
“Peace is a path of hope, a path on which one advances through dialogue, reconciliation and conversion.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On New Year, Pope Wishes the Faithful a 2020 of Peace, Voice of America, (1 January 2020)
“There are mothers, who risk perilous journeys to desperately try to give the fruit of the womb a better future and are judged to be redundant by people whose bellies are full of things, but whose hearts are empty of love.”
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Recorded in: On New Year, Pope Wishes the Faithful a 2020 of Peace, Voice of America, (1 January 2020)
“Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods? I don’t know if these are the revenge of nature, but they are certainly nature’s responses. Today I believe we have to slow down our rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world. We need to reconnect with our real surroundings.”
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Recorded in: On the coronavirus and environmental crises. Cited in Pope salutes 'saints next door' in fight against coronavirus in the Guardian. (8 April 2020)
“The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neoliberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same recipes. Neoliberalism simply reproduces itself by resorting to the magic theories of 'spillover' or 'trickle' – without using the name – as the only solution to societal problems.”
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Recorded in: Pope Francis issues blistering rebuke of capitalism — and says the coronavirus pandemic proves 'not everything can be resolved by market freedom'", (5 October 2020)
“I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uyghurs, the Yazidi -- what ISIS did to them was truly cruel -- or Christians in Egypt and Pakistan killed by bombs that went off while they prayed in church.”
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Recorded in: Says in the book, "Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better Future," published on November 23, 2020. CNN News
“Quando riceviamo l'Eucaristia, Gesù fa lo stesso con noi: ci conosce, sa che siamo peccatori e sbagliamo tanto, ma non rinuncia a unire la sua vita alla nostra. Sa che ne abbiamo bisogno, perché l'Eucaristia non è il premio dei santi, ma il Pane dei peccatori.”
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Recorded in: Il Papa: l'Eucaristia è il Pane dei peccatori, non il premio dei santi (June 6, 2021)
“China is not easy, but I am convinced that we should not give up dialogue. You can be deceived in dialogue, you can make mistakes, all that ... but it is the way. Closed-mindedness is never the way.”
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Recorded in: While defending the controversial deal between China and Holy See on the appointment of bishops in China. Cited in Pope defends deal with China, says dialogue necessary in the Reuters. (1 September 2021)
“(I) thank you for what you tell us about what is wrong in the Church, for helping us not to sweep it under the carpet, and for the voice you have given to the abuse victims," the pope said.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Pope thanks journalists for helping expose Church sex scandals. Reuters 13 November 2021
“Investing in education means helping children and young people to discover and appreciate the most important values and to have the courage to look to their future with hope.”
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“In education dwells the seed of hope: hope for peace and justice, hope for beauty and goodness; hope for social harmony.”
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Recorded in: Cited in Pope Francis: Art creates brotherhood and friendship in the Vatican News. (15 December 2021)
“With an aching heart I add my voice to that of the common people, who implore the end of the war. In the name of God, listen to the cry of those who suffer, and put an end to the bombings and the attacks! The city that bears the name of the Virgin Mary, Mariupol, has become a city martyred by the ruinous war that is devastating Ukraine. Before the barbarism of killing children and innocent and defenceless citizens, no strategic reasons hold: the only thing to be done is to cease the unacceptable armed aggression before cities are reduced to cemeteries.”
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Recorded in: Appeal to an end to the war in Ukraine during Sunday angelus (13 March 2022), as quoted in official tweets: also in "Pope Francis condemns Russian invasion on Ukraine as he calls on Vladimir Putin to 'stop unacceptable …
“When we resort to violence ... we lose sight of why we are in the world and even end up committing senseless acts of cruelty. We see this in the folly of war, where Christ is crucified yet another time.”
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Recorded in: In the Palm Sunday Mass, Pope Francis pushes for peace in Ukraine" in NPR (10 April 2022)
“If we had memory, we would know that war, before it reaches the front lines, must be stopped in hearts. Hate, before it is too late, must be eradicated from hearts. And in order to do so, we need dialogue, negotiation, listening, diplomatic capacity and creativity, far-sighted politics capable of building a new system of coexistence that is no longer based on weapons, on the power of weapons, on deterrence.”
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Recorded in: Pope Francis: 'War is a sacrilege, let us stop fuelling it!'" (13 April 2022)
“My thoughts go immediately to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city of Mary, barbarously bombarded and destroyed.”
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Recorded in: Pope: Mariupol 'barbarously bombarded', implicitly criticizing Russia", The Jerusalem Post, 2 May 2022
“The Patriarch [Kirill] cannot transform himself into Putin's altar boy.”
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Recorded in: Pope Francis, quoted in "Pope Francis warns pro-war Russian patriarch not to be 'Putin's altar boy'", CNN, 4 May 2022
“Do you know what I need for my knee? Some tequila.”
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Recorded in: Pope Francis’ answer for his bad knee? Tequila", PBS, May 17 2022
“The use of nuclear weapons, as well as their mere possession, is immoral.”
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“God does not want us to be slaves, but sons and daughters. He does not want to make decisions for us, or oppress us with a sacral power, exercised in a world governed by religious laws. No! He created us to be free, and he asks us to be mature and responsible persons in life and in society.”
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“Together with you, I would like once more to ask forgiveness of all the victims. The pain and the shame we feel must become an occasion for conversion: Never again! Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others, or that it is legitimate to employ ways of coercing others.”
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“God seems to have disappeared from the horizon, and his word no longer seems a compass guiding our lives, our basic decisions, our human and social relationships.”
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“We must begin with ourselves: bishops and priests, who should not feel themselves superior to our brothers and sisters in the people of God. Pastoral workers, who should not understand service as power.”
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Recorded in: God does not want ‘a world governed by religious laws,’ pope tells Canadian clergy", 28 July 2022
“To defend oneself is not only lawful but also an expression of love of country.”
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“I do not exclude dialogue with any power that is at war, even if it is the aggressor. Sometimes dialogue should be done like this, but it has to be done. It stinks, but it has to be done.”
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Recorded in: Pope Francis: ‘The West has taken the wrong paths’", Catholic News Agency, 15 September 2022
“He [Cardinal Konrad Krajewski] told me of the pain of these people, the savage acts, the monstrosity, the tortured bodies they find. Let us unite with these people, so noble, and martyred.”
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Recorded in: Pope Says Ukraine Subjected to Monstrosities", US News, 21 September 2022
“What is to happen next? How much blood must still flow for us to realize that war is never a solution, only destruction? In the name of God and in the name of the sense of humanity that dwells in every heart, I renew my call for an immediate ceasefire.”
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“My appeal is addressed first and foremost to the President of the Russian Federation, imploring him to stop this spiral of violence and death, also for the sake of his own people.”
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Recorded in: Pope Francis urges Putin to end ‘spiral of violence and death’", Newsbook, 2 October 2022
“It is beautiful to celebrate Christmas, but let us lower the level of Christmas spending. Let's have a more humble Christmas, with more humble gifts, and send what we save to the Ukrainian people, who need it. … They are suffering so much, they are going hungry, they feel the cold and many are dying because there are not enough doctors and nurses available … Let's not forget. Christmas, yes. In peace with the Lord, yes. But with Ukrainians in our hearts. Let's make this concrete gesture for them.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Spend Less on Christmas, Send Difference to Ukrainians, Pope Urges”, ‘’U.S. News & World Report (14 December 2022)