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" The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone! "

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" Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. "

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" Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful. "

" I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. "

" The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. "

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" Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil. "

" Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good. "

" If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option. "

" Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history. "

" We all have the duty to do good. "

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" Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects. "

" Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded. "

" I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. "

" You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person. "

" Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church! "

" You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years. "

" Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor. "

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" We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. "

" Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason. "

" A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals. "

" If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing. "

" A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel. "

" We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick. "

" Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God. "

" This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good. "

" Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy. "

" I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time. "

" Money has to serve, not to rule. "

" Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God. "

" There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride. "

" Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. "