“The thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. 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. And you have to start from the group up. Then we can talk about everything else. Heal the wounds, heal the wounds…”
– Pope Francis
“Perhaps you were mad, perhaps plates flew, but please remember this: never let the sun go down without making peace! Never, never, never! “
– Pope Francis at St Peter’s Square. February 14, 2014.
“Who Am I to Judge?”
If there is one line by which Pope Francis has become famous, it is ‘I do not judge’ or perhaps rather ‘who am I to judge?’. The most famous instance where he used this line was on a plane coming back from World Youth Day in Brazil. Journalists were given open slather to ask him about a range of topics, and he was asked about homosexuality. Responding to questions about whether there was a “gay lobby” in the Vatican, Francis replied, ‘If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge?’
— Andrew Hamilton, SJ. Read more about Who Am I to Judge In Austra- lianCatholic.com.
