TOP POPE FRANCIS’ HELPING THE POOR QUOTES 1. Poverty must be measured with today’s standards The claim that the modern world has reduced poverty is made by measuring poverty with criteria from the past that do not correspond to present-day realities. In other times, for example, lack of access to electric energy was not considered a sign […]Read More
SOLIDARITY QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE Solidarity Quote 1 – Prime Minister Joseph Bech “The European economic community will prove lasting and successful only if it remains constantly faithful to the spirit of European solidarity that created it, and if the common will of the Europe now being born proves more powerful than the will of individual nations”. […]Read More
TOP POPE FRANCIS’ DRUGS ADDICTION QUOTES 1. Every drug addict has a story which must be understood “Every drug addict has a unique personal story and must be listened to, understood, loved, and, insofar as possible, healed and purified. We cannot stoop to the injustice of categorizing drug addicts as if they were mere objects […]Read More
TOP POPE FRANCIS’ QUOTES ON EASTER 1. Easter is the feast of hope “Dear sister, dear brother, even if in your heart you have buried hope, do not give up: God is greater. Darkness and death do not have the last word. Be strong, for with God nothing is lost!” Pope Francis, Homily, April 2020 […]Read More
DEATH AND FAITH QUOTES BY THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH 1. “We understand what shall be through the Gospels” – St Ambrose Of Milan “Though Christ has not touched the bier, yet He has received the spirit commended to Him, and if He has not called the dead by the bodily voice, yet He has […]Read More
TOP PRAYERFUL HOLY WEEK BIBLE VERSES CONTAINING JESUS’ DIRECT SPEECH Maundy Thursday, The Day Of The Last Supper Maundy Thursday Verse 1, “Don’t let your hearts be troubled” “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. You know where I am going, and you know the way. Thomas asked him, […]Read More
EASTER QUOTES BY THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH 1. “God has fallen asleep in search for our first parents, the lost sheep” – Anon 2nd cen “Something strange is happening, there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth […]Read More
TOP POPE FRANCIS’ SOLIDARITY QUOTES 1. Solidarity is drawing closer to your neighbours “Solidarity entails the awareness of being part of a single body, while at the same time involving a capacity on the part of each member to “sympathize with others and with the whole. When one suffers, all suffer. For solidarity is no […]Read More
TOP POPE FRANCIS’ MEDIA QUOTES 1. Media can prove to be a great tool to foster solidarity “In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of the unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more […]Read More
POPE BENEDICT 16th ON THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH The future of the Church after crisis: smaller, more spiritual, man’s home Below are Pope Benedict’s remarks on the future of the Catholic Church broadcasted on a 1969 German radio program and recorded in the book Joseph Ratzinger, Faith and the Future, Ignatius Press, 2009: “The future of the Church can and will […]Read More