Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “When this love fails – because many times it fails – we have to feel the pain of the failure, [we must] accompany those people who have had this failure in their love. Do not condemn. Walk with them.”
Pope Francis: “When this love fails – because many times it fails – we have to feel the pain of the failure, [we must] accompany those people who have had this failure in their love. Do not condemn. Walk with them.”
Cardinal Peter Turkson, criticizing Uganda’s anti-gay law and calling for the repeal of its severe penalties: “Homosexuals are not criminals.”
Pope Francis, on bishops: “The Church doesn’t need apologists for their own agendas or crusaders for their own battles, but humble and faithful sowers of the truth.”
Pope Francis: “Jesus did not come to teach us good manners, how to behave well at the table!…Christ came to save us, to show us the way, the only way out of the quicksand of sin, and this way is mercy.”
Cardinal Orlando Quevedo: “Today, the Church has riches, institutions. But I would like to think that the only way the Church can redeem these resources as well as its institutions would be to place them at the service of justice and of the poor for the sake of the kingdom of God.”
Pope Francis: “The gravest deprivation experienced by the aged is not the weakening of one’s physical body, nor the disability that may result from this. Rather, it is the abandonment, exclusion and deprivation of love.”
Pope Francis: “Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.”