Quotes from Pope Francis

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

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.

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.

He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.