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  • Pope Francis with 1 million young people… in 10 quotes

    August 2nd”I am happy to be in Lisbon, a city of encounter that embraces various peoples and cultures and that, in these days, becomes, in a certain way, the capital of the world.“ (Belem Cultural Centre) “We dream of the Portuguese Church as a ‘safe harbour’ for those facing the journeys, shipwrecks, and storms of…

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  • Address of Pope Francis for the opening of the Synod (extracts)

    Saturday, 9 October 2021 Thank you for being here for the opening of the Synod.  You have come by many different roads and from different Churches, each bearing your own questions and hopes.  I am certain the Spirit will guide us and give us the grace to move forward together, to listen to one another…

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  • LENT: PAUSE, SEE, RETURN

    “Lent is the time for allowing one’s heart to be touched…” Pope Francis said at Mass on Ash Wednesday. “God does not tire, nor will he tire, of holding out his hand.” He encouraged us to pause, see, and return to the Father. He offered suggestions of how to pause, including refraining from showing off,…

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  • Pope Francis closes the Synod

    Commentators have praised Pope Francis’s closing comments at the recent Synod. Here are some extracts, starting with some “temptations”…. “One, a temptation to hostile inflexibility or rigidity, that is, wanting to close oneself – within the written word, (the letter) and not allowing oneself to be surprised by God, by the God of surprises, (the…

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