Pope Francis
Pope Francis
Pope Francisis the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III, who died in 741...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth17 December 1936
CityBuenos Aires, Argentina
You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.
May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.
A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.
We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.
Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.
In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.
This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.
Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.
May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.
God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.