12
Quotes From Pope Francis' Exclusive Interview
This is a list of 12
selected quoted from Pope Francis’ recent exclusive interview with La Civiltà
Cattolica.
This
interview with Pope Francis took place over the course of three meetings during
August 2013 in Rome. The interview was conducted in person by Antonio Spadaro,
S.J., editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, the Italian Jesuit journal. The
interview was conducted in Italian. After the Italian text was officially
approved, America commissioned a team of five independent experts to translate
it into English. You can read the full interview here
1.
“I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of
speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”
2.
“when I took possession of the papal apartment, inside myself I distinctly
heard a ‘no.’ The papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace is not luxurious. It
is old, tastefully decorated and large, but not luxurious. But in the end it is
like an inverted funnel. It is big and spacious, but the entrance is really
tight. People can come only in dribs and drabs, and I cannot live without
people. I need to live my life with others.”
3.
“In my breviary I have the last will of my grandmother Rosa, and I read it
often. For me it is like a prayer.”
4.”This
church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel
that can hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the
bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”
5.
“Pope Benedict has done an act of holiness, greatness, humility. He is a man of
God.”
6.
“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. Heal the wounds, heal the wounds…. And you have to start from the ground
up.”
7.
“The confessor, for example, is always in danger of being either too much of a
rigorist or too lax. Neither is merciful, because neither of them really takes
responsibility for the person. The rigorist washes his hands so that he leaves
it to the commandment. The loose minister washes his hands by simply saying,
‘This is not a sin’ or something like that. In pastoral ministry we must
accompany people, and we must heal their wounds.”
8.
“We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news
of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and
wound. In Buenos Aires I used to receive letters from homosexual persons who
are ‘socially wounded’ because they tell me that they feel like the church has
always condemned them. But the church does not want to do this. During the
return flight from Rio de Janeiro I said that if a homosexual person is of good
will and is in search of God, I am no one to judge. By saying this, I said what
the catechism says. Religion has the right to express its opinion in the
service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible
to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.”
9.
“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use
of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about
these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these
issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church,
for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary
to talk about these issues all the time.”
10.
“We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of the woman. Only by
making this step will it be possible to better reflect on their function within
the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important
decisions.”
11.
“When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an
empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way.”
12.
“Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological
virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to
optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny
himself. God is all promise.”
Ryan Scheel
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