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Pope Francis Quotes about Church

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Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Church, Mercy, Forgiven

We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.

Mean, Joy, Church

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

Hurt, Dirty, Church

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.132, SPCK

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Suffering, Church, Draws

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

Rome, Catholic, Church

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Doors, Thought Provoking, Church

Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.55, A&C Black

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.

Blood, Church, Battle

Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.54, A&C Black

You can't have Christ without the Church.

Church, Christ

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church's credibility.

Faithful, Church, Life Is

"Pope Francis to priests: Practice what you preach". www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2013.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Attitude, Vanity, Church

"'Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church'". Vatican Insider Interview, www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.

Church, Foundation, New Life

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

Christian, Community, Church

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

Creativity, Joy, Church

" Pope Francis's final mass in Brazil 'attended by 3m" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Church, Want, Might

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Art, Church

I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

School, People, Church

"Pope Francis’s ‘Mess’". www.nationalreview.com. August 1, 2013.

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.

Church, Never Forget, Lord

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Church, Mediocrity, Nests

Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.51, A&C Black

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

Doors, Church, John Paul Ii

"Pope's women in the Church remarks urge a deeper theology" by Adelaide Mena, www.catholicnewsagency.com.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

Heart, Faithful, Church

Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.15, Orbis Books

The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.

Church, Vitality, Philippines

Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

Journey, Brotherhood, Church

I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

Blood, Grace, Church

The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.

Teaching, Church, Mars

Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.73, BookBaby

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

Catholic, Greek, Church

"In 2012 interview, Pope Francis (then-Cardinal Bergoglio) reveals secret of celibacy". Interview with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, aleteia.org. March 18, 2013.

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