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"The migrant has to be received, thereafter you see how you're going to deal with them. Maybe you have to send the back, I don't know, but each case ought to be considered humanely."
— Pope Francis

"The Son, therefore, came, sent by the Father. It was in Him, before the foundation of the world, that the Father chose us and predestined us to become adopted sons, for in Him it pleased the Father to re-establish all things."
—Lumen Gentium 3, Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican

"The different ways in which God, acting in history, cares for the world and for mankind are not mutually exclusive; on the contrary, they support each other and intersect. They have their origin and goal in the eternal, wise and loving counsel whereby God predestines men and women “to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Rom 8:29)."
— Pope St. John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor 45

Interviewer: "For a little girl growing up Catholic today, will she ever have the opportunity to be a deacon and participate as a clergy member in the Church?"

His Holiness Pope Francis: "No."

"Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout... He is never submerged in life, but keeps his head and shoulders clear of it and his eyes free to look upward."
— Fr. Romano Guardini, Meditations Before Mass

This is what it was really like when Columbus discovered the New World:

"I claim this land in the name of their majesties Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, and in honor of our Holy Savior, I name it San Salvador. Let us give thanks."

"In this 'liquid' world of ours, we need to start speaking once more about the heart... Yet find ourselves immersed in societies of serial consumers who live from day to day, dominated by the hectic pace and bombarded by technology, lacking in the patience needed to engage in the processes that an interior life by its very nature requires."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"[E]ncountering others does not necessarily prove to be a way of encountering ourselves, inasmuch as our thought patterns are dominated by an unhealthy individualism... The failure to make room for the heart, as distinct from our human powers and passions viewed in isolation from one another, has resulted in a stunting of the idea of a personal centre, in which love, in the end, is the one reality that can unify all the others."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"All our actions need to be put under the 'political rule' of the heart. In this way, our aggressiveness and obsessive desires will find rest in the greater good that the heart proposes and in the power of the heart to resist evil."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"[Our Lady] was able to dialogue with the things she experienced by pondering them in her heart, treasuring their memory and viewing them in a greater perspective. The best expression of how the heart thinks is found in the two passages in Saint Luke’s Gospel that speak to us of how Mary 'treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart' (cf. Lk 2:19 and 51)."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"In the end, that Sacred Heart is the unifying principle of all reality."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"In the presence of the heart of Christ, I once more ask the Lord to have mercy on this suffering world in which he chose to dwell as one of us."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"If we find it hard to trust others because we have been hurt by lies, injuries and disappointments, the Lord whispers in our ear: 'Take heart, son! Take heart, daughter!'. He encourages us to overcome our fear and to realize that, with him at our side, we have nothing to lose."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"In a word, if love reigns in our heart, we become, in a complete and luminous way, the persons we are meant to be, for every human being is created above all else for love. In the deepest fibre of our being, we were made to love and to be loved."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"To see these elderly women weep, and not feel that this is something intolerable, is a sign of a world that has grown heartless... [I]n contemplating the meaning of our lives, perhaps the most decisive question we can ask is, 'Do I have a heart?'?
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

When Jews pray the psalms and when Catholics pray the psalms, while they may praying the same text, they are often praying for diametrically opposed outcomes, especially having to do with the exaltation of Israel/Sion. In this sense we do not “share” even the Old Testament.

When Jews pray the psalms and when Catholics pray the psalms, while they may praying the same text, they are often praying for diametrically opposed outcomes, especially having to do with the exaltation of Israel/Sion. In this sense we do not “share” even the Old Testament.

It is for this reason that Judaism unlike other non-Christian religions stands in unique opposition to the Catholic Church. It’s not just that they don’t believe in Jesus, but they received an identity from God that is itself a sign pointing toward something they reject. Christianity is not just an ideological opponent, its very existence creates for them a perpetual identity crisis at the most foundational level of their Jewishness.

"No type of cruelty can tear down the religion established by the mystery of Christ’s cross. The Church is not diminished by persecutions, but rather increased."
— Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 82

"Jesus does not say to you, 'You cannot be my disciple unless you walk on the sea, unless you raise up someone dead for four days, unless you open the eyes of someone born blind.' No, he does not say that. What does it mean, then, to go in by the door? Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart (Mt 11:29). You must concentrate on what he became for your sake; that is what you are to imitate in him."
— St. Augustine, Exposition #1 of Psalm 90