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as Pope.)

      13 March 2013

       ON ARGENTINA

      Is it true that Argentinians don’t want to dialogue? I wouldn’t put it that way. Rather, I think we’ve become victims of attitudes that don’t permit us to dialogue: arrogance, the inability to listen, an exasperation with language … and so many others.

      Sobre El Cielo y La Tierra, 2010

      Our painful political history has all too often courted silence. The use of euphemisms has often anaesthetized us.

      Homily, Easter 2008

      Argentina has arrived at a moment of critical decision-making … the decision to continue as a country, to learn from its painful experiences of the past and initiate a new path, or to drown in misery, chaos, the loss of values, and decomposition as a society.

      Annual Message to Educational Communities, Easter 2002

      I dare to say it still: we Argentinians have a long history of mutual intolerance.

      Homily, Easter 2005

      We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least. The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.

      Address, CELAM conference, 21 May 2007

       ON ARGENTINA’S DIRTY WAR

      In the Church, there were Christians from both camps: Christians who died as guerrillas, Christians who helped save people, and Christian oppressors who believed they were saving the homeland.

      Sobre El Cielo y La Tierra, 2010

      We believe that the steps taken by the justice system in clarifying these events must serve to renew the efforts of all citizens toward reconciliation, and are a call to distance ourselves not only from impunity but from hatred and rancour as well. [Any Catholic who participated did so] on his own responsibility, erring and sinning gravely against God, against mankind, and against his own conscience.

      Interpress Service, 11 October 2007

      The horrors committed under the military governments were revealed only drip by drip, but for me they are still one of the worst blights on this country.

      Sobre El Cielo y La Tierra, 2010

       ON ART AND ARTISTS

      Artists know well that beauty isn’t solely consoling, but that it can also be disturbing. The grand masters have known how to present with beauty those realities of the human condition that are most tragic and painful.

      Dissertation of the Archbishop in ADEPA, 6 April 2006

      Argentina has given the world many writers and artists of quality … in every genre, from the most traditional to those that express the views of the youngest generations – all saying something about who we are and who we want to be!

      Annual Message to Educational Communities, Easter 2006

      The White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall. (His favourite painting.)

      El Jesuita, 2010

       ON ASKING CATHOLICS FOR THEIR PRAYERS

      I would like to give you a blessing, but first I want to ask you for a favour. Before the bishop blesses the people, I ask that you pray to the Lord so that he blesses me.

      First Blessing as Pope, 13 March 2013

       ON ASPIRATIONS

      No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

      Homily, 25 May 2006

       ON ASSISTED SUICIDE

      In Argentina there is clandestine euthanasia. Social services pay up to a certain point; if you pass it, ‘die, you are very old’. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society. The right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

      LifeSiteNews.com, 5 October 2007

      A culture of discarding the elderly.

      Speech, Aparecida Document, 2 October 2007

       ON ATHEISTS

      I don’t say that [the atheist’s] life is condemned [to Hell], because I am convinced I don’t have the right to pass judgment about the moral uprightness of that person.

      Sobre El Cielo y La Tierra, 2010

      Not everyone present belongs to the Catholic faith and others do not believe. I respect the conscience of each one of you, knowing that each one of you is a child of God. May God bless you.

      Vatican press conference, 16 March 2013

      [I] know more agnostics than atheists; the first is more undecided, the second, more convinced.

      Sobre El Cielo y La Tierra, 2010

       ON BAPTIZING THE CHILDREN OF SINGLE PARENTS

      The child has absolutely no responsibility for the state of his parents’ marriage. And often a baptism can be a new start for the parents as well.

      30 Giorni, August 2009

      In our ecclesiastical region, there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites: those who clericalize the Church, those who separate the people of God from salvation. And this poor girl who, rather than returning the child to sender, had the courage to carry it into the world, must wander from parish to parish until her child can be baptized!

      New York Daily News, 14 March 2013

       ON BEAUTY

      Few things are more moving than the human need for beauty that all hearts have.

      Dissertation of the Archbishop in ADEPA, 6 April 2006

      Because it is human, sometimes beauty is tragic, surprising, moving; on some occasions, it compels us to think about what we do not want or it shows us the error of our ways.

      Dissertation of the Archbishop in ADEPA, 6 April 2006

       ON BEING CHOSEN AS POPE

      As you know, the duty of the Conclave is to give Rome a bishop. It seems that my brother cardinals went almost to the end of the world. But here we are.

      First Blessing as Pope, 13 March 2013

      May God forgive you. (At his first dinner with the cardinals after his election as Pope.)

       ON BEING RIGHT … AND WRONG

      I don’t have all the answers. Nor do I have all the questions … I confess that, in general, because of my temperament, the first response that occurs to me is the wrong one … It’s curious, but that’s the way it is with me…

      El Jesuita, 2010

       ON BIRTH CONTROL

      [Anti-condom zealots want to] stick the whole world inside a condom.

      Sobre El Cielo y La Tierra, 2010

       ON BRIDEZILLA WEDDINGS

      In some churches – and I don’t know how to remedy this, honestly – there is a fierce competition between bridesmaids and brides. These women aren’t observing a religious act; they’re just showing off. And this weighs on my conscience; as priest, I am permitting this and I haven’t found a way to put a stop to it.

      Sobre

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