Pope Francis Quotes About Community

• The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

  Pope Francis

  Community, World, Relate

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

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  Christian, Community, Church

• Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

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  Christian, Community, Devil

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. September 30, 2014.

• Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's design by God, and, by his grace, countless Christian men and women have lived married life fully.

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  Christian, Men, Design

• Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

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  Christian, Community, Promotion

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.57, BookBaby

• Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

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  Brother, Love You, Cells

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

• It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

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  Family, Children, Husband

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.14, Orbis Books

• Do we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, so as to be an active part of our communities, or do we close in on ourselves, saying 'I have so many things to do, that's not my job'?

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  Jobs, Community, Spirit

• We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

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  People, Community, Waiting

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.83, A&C Black

• The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that this prophetic summons will challenge everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor, and to make concerted efforts to ensure the inclusion of every man and woman and child in the life of the community.

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  Children, Men, Years

• The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

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  People, Community, Soul

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

• No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

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  Community, Individual, Participation

  Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

• Let us not grow tired of knocking at God's door. Let us go to the heart of God through Mary, our whole life, every day, knocking at the door of God's heart! Mary prays - prays together with the community of disciples, and teaches us to have full faith in God, in his mercy. This is the power of prayer!

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  Prayer, Tired, Heart

• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

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  Reality, Order, Leader

• Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.

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  Community, Humanity, Working Together

• Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Money

• Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

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  Thinking, Creative, Community

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

• [T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

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  Family, Home, People

• And there is this fact of the twelve baskets: why twelve? What does it mean? Twelve is the number of the tribes of Israel, symbolically it represents all the people. And this tells us that when food is shared equally, with solidarity, nobody is devoid of the necessary, each community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology go hand in hand.

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  Mean, Israel, Hands

• ...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

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  Food, Community, Environmental

• American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.

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  Religious, Rights, People

  Speech at the White House, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2015.

• Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

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  Religious, Mean, Community

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts”, p.73, Liturgical Press

• Now, at the end of my visit to the Philippines, I commend you to Him, to Jesus who came among us as a child. May He enable all the beloved people of this country to work together, protecting one another, beginning with your families and communities, in building a world of justice, integrity and peace.

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  Country, Jesus, Children

• The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation, as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.

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  Prayer, Opportunity, Community

• I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

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  Jesus, Discipline, Community

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.19, A&C Black

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