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I ask forgiveness, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the Church and of religious communities cooperated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
A month after conception, the DNA of the fetus is already there and the organs are aligned. There is human life, is it just to eliminate a human life?
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Think of Rwanda 25 years ago. Think of Myanmar and the Rohingya, the world is at war.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today we see a form of selfishness. We see that people do not want to have children, or just one and no more. And many, many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one -- but they have two dogs, two cats... Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children, this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Yes, it's funny, I understand, but it is the reality. And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity. And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood. And our homeland suffers, as it does not have children.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
How many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them, having a child is always a risk, either naturally or by adoption. But it is riskier not to have them. It is riskier to deny fatherhood, or to deny motherhood, be it real or spiritual.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We see that people do not want to have children, or just one and no more. And many, many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one -- but they have two dogs, two cats... Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children, yes, it's funny, I understand, but it is the reality. And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity. And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood. And our homeland suffers, as it does not have children.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They're children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it, what we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The brutality of this worldwide phenomenon becomes all the more grave and scandalous in the church, for it is utterly incompatible with( its) moral authority and ethical credibility, consecrated persons.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is undeniable that some in the past, out of irresponsibility, disbelief, lack of training, inexperience, or spiritual and human short-sightedness, treated many cases without the seriousness and promptness that was due, that must never happen again.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
In old times these things were covered up, they were covered up also in the homes when the uncle raped the little niece, or the father raped his children. They were covered up because the shame was very big.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I will not say a single word about this, i believe the statement speaks for itself. And you have the sufficient journalistic ability to make your conclusions. It's an act of trust.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
One of the rationales for the death penalty in Catholic Church teachings historically was to protect society. Obviously, the state still has that obligation, that is not being taken away here, but they can do that in other ways.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It’s hard to say this, but often times young people are treated as garbage.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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. i say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Thank God he said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person, as to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some congregations experiment with 'artificial insemination.' What do they do? They welcome... 'Yes come, come, come'. And then there are problems, no. We must be serious about who we take. We must clearly distinguish if it is a real vocation, and help it to grow.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Just one bit of advice: when a child cries because he's hungry, I'll say to the mothers -- if your child is hungry, feel free to feed him here.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Do not forget that the greatest legacy that you can give your children is faith. Cherish it to make sure is not lost, to make it grow and to leave it as a legacy.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It would be sad, and I dare say even catastrophic, were particular interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and projects.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Experience shows that violence, conflict and terrorism feed on fear, mistrust, and the despair born of poverty and frustration.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Are you the family who traveled from Buenos Aires? You're crazy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The number and complexity of the problems require that we possess technical instruments of verification.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Solemn commitments, however, are not enough, even though they are a necessary step toward solutions.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
An ethics and a law based on the threat of mutual destruction -- and possibly the destruction of all mankind.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We cannot permit ourselves to postpone 'certain agendas' for the future, the future demands of us critical and global decisions in the face of worldwide conflicts which increase the number of the excluded and those in need.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In a special way I would like to express my esteem and gratitude to the religious women of the United States. What would the Church be without you? women of strength, fighters, with that spirit of courage which puts you on the front lines in the proclamation of the Gospel. To you, religious women, sisters and mothers of this people, I wish to say 'thank you', a big thank you... and to tell you that I love you very much.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The speeches I gave in Cuba were always following the doctrine of the Church.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
My doctrine ... this is the social doctrine of the Church. Nothing more, nothing less, and if I have to recite the Credo, I will do it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So we are either a fantastic nation with 18 geniuses who can lead the country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're going to make the church younger and fresher and more enthusiastic, if that happens, it's going to be worth all the work and all the money that's gone into preparing for this visit.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is not enough to have altar girls, women readers or women as the president of Caritas, women in the church are more important than bishops and priests.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You did not buy a ticket to get into the seminary, you did nothing to 'deserve' it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is I who follow the church! it's not a fight against an enemy, it's catechism.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I ask them not to yield to an economic model which is idolatrous, which needs to sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and profit.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I say this to you with regret, many grave sins were committed against the native peoples of South America in the name of God.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You may be asking yourselves,' Who is this man standing before us ?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life : The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Certainly every culture needs economic growth and the creation of wealth.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor ; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Perhaps public financing would allow for me, the citizen, to know that I'm financing each candidate with a given amount of money.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We must achieve a free sort of election campaign, not financed, because many interests come into play in financing of an election campaign and then they ask you to pay back. So, the election campaign should be independent from anyone who may finance it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's normal, it's normal. One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
She is the only one who has put forward a question for which there is no answer and she was not even able to express it in words but rather in tears, why do children suffer?
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Many of you have asked the Lord, 'Why?' And to each of you the Lord is responding to your hearts from his heart ... so many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you but the Lord does know what to say to you.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Those who lose their inner serenity, their vivacity and audacity, to hide behind their papers, becoming like procedural machines rather than men of God. This is dangerous to lose human sensitivity, so necessary in order to cry with those who cry and enjoy with those who enjoy.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
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