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1936–2025 Argentina
Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2013. Francis was the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century.
Also known as: Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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Politics must not be subject to the economy, nor should the economy be subject to the dictates of an efficiency-driven paradigm of technocracy.
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
Not only does each person have the freedom and the right to say what they think for the common good, they have a duty to do so.
When we want to say something deeply personal, we often say that we are speaking “from the heart".
Dilexit nos (2024)
Vanity not only distances us from God: it makes us look ridiculous.
God’s mercy has no limits if you go to him with a sincere and contrite heart. The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience.
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.
What is scandal? Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life.
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.
My thoughts go immediately to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city of Mary, barbarously bombarded and destroyed.
Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.
We should not limit our gaze to the finger that points us to the moon.
Dilexit nos (2024)
Jesus made himself to be serpent; Jesus made himself to be sin.
The heart has been ignored in anthropology, and the great philosophical tradition finds it a foreign notion, preferring other concepts such as reason, will or freedom.
Dilexit nos (2024)
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.
Everything is connected. Concern for the environment thus needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.
Human rights are...violated...by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy.
The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.
What I will say is not a dogma of faith but something personal of mine. I like to think about the empty hell, I hope it is reality.
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