Jorge Mario Bergoglio Quotes

...I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech, preconceived judgments and so many others.

Some people want to know why I wished to be called Francis. For me, Francis of Assisi is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation.

The wounds in Argentine society are not yet healed, which is why the controversy surrounding Jorge Mario Bergoglio is still alive and angry.

Alone and unobserved Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, was at prayer in the way that Grandma Rosa would have been.

God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God is open to all people. He calls everyone. He moves everyone to seek Him and to discover Him through creation.

What, exactly, is Pope Francis’s message? In a sentence, his message is: “God is love” (1 John 4:8). Love is the energy at the heart of the universe. Love created the world, love sustains the world, and love unites the world. In God’s great heart, the heart that beats at the center of the universe, we are all connected, we are all one. More personally, the hope that Pope Francis articulates every day is that you will encounter the tender and transforming love of Jesus Christ.

Let us never tire, therefore, of seeking the Lord—of letting ourselves be sought by him—of tending over our relationship with him in silence and prayerful listening. Let us keep our gaze fixed on him, the center of time and history; let us make room for his presence within us.

Let me state this in the clearest terms possible: The problem of drug use is not solved with drugs!” he stated. “Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil, there can be no yielding or compromise.

Among other words used in ordinary conversation, [Francis of Assisi] could never hear “the love of God” without a kind of transformation within himself. For immediately upon hearing “the love of God,” he would become excited, stirred, and inflamed, as though an inner chord of his heart had been plucked by the plectrum of the outward voice of the speaker…. “The love of him,” he said, “who loved us much is much to be loved.”1 —Thomas of Celano,The Second Life of Saint Francis

The Lord Calls You I would like to say to those who feel far from God and from the Church—I would like to say respectfully—to all those who are fearful or indifferent: the Lord calls you too, he calls you to be a part of his people, and he does so with deep respect and love! The Lord is calling you. The Lord is seeking you. The Lord is waiting for you. The Lord does not proselytize, he loves, and this love seeks you, waits for you, you who at this moment do not believe this or are far away. And this is the love of God. Angelus, St. Peter’s Square Monday, January 6, 2014

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Pope Francis @Pontifex • March 22, 2014 “Jesus is our hope. Nothing—not even evil or death—is able to separate us from the saving power of his love.

The media's way of putting things, in black and white, is a sinful tendency that always favors conflict over unity.

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dispuesta a limpiar las conductas más pecaminosas que se habían instaurado durante los últimos años en el seno del catolicismo? La respuesta llegó clara y contundente el 13 de marzo de 2013, cuando en la quinta ronda de votaciones del segundo día del cónclave, los cardenales eligieron como nuevo pontífice a Jorge Mario Bergoglio, el papa Francisco.

That brush with mortality not only meant that Jorge Mario Bergoglio went through the rest of his life with part of one lung missing, but it also deepened his resolve to devote himself to service as a priest of the frontier—one who wouldn’t sit around waiting for hurting people to walk through the door but who would go and seek them out.

Sólo los que dialogan pueden tender puentes y vínculos

Perhaps my favorite story about Francis is that first encounter he reportedly had with his guard after becoming pope. As I have heard it, Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had just spent his first night sleeping as Pope Francis. In the morning he went outside of his new simple guest room and discovered a Swiss Army guard, who traditionally protects the pope. “Who are you?” Francis asked. “I am your guard” came the reply. “Where is your chair?” asked Francis. “My commandant says we must stand while we guard.” Then Francis told the guard there was now a new commandant. “How long have you been here?” asked Francis. “All night,” replied the guard. The pontiff told the guard to wait a minute, then came out with a chair for him to sit on. When Francis asked him if he had had something to eat, the guard started to say, “My commandant . . .” then trailed off. “Wait a minute,” said Francis again, then came back with a sandwich, and the two sat and ate together. A closed and judging church was trying to become an open and encountering church.

Juan Pablo II auspiciaba, pues, tras la caída del comunismo, la afirmación de una auténtica teología de la liberación libre del marxismo, pero no por ello menos comprometida en la lucha por la justicia. Era el sueño de Methol Ferré y de Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Los Estados Unidos, en un tiempo tierra de arribada de los emigrantes católicos italianos, irlandeses, polacos, se han convertido con el paso del tiempo en cuna de un catolicismo peculiar. Una fe que acentúa la dimensión moral del cristianismo en detrimento de la profética. Está interconectada con el capitalismo que empapa la cultura de la otra orilla del Atlántico. Entra en competición con un protestantismo evangélico nacionalista, racista, proselitista, homófobo. No por casualidad la Civiltà cattolica, publicación quincenal de los jesuitas próxima al papa Francisco, ha puesto en guardia contra un «ecumenismo del odio» —casi un yihadismo cristiano— que une a los sectores más tradicionalistas del catolicismo y del protestantismo. Desde los largos años de Juan Pablo II en adelante, con la etiqueta autoadhesiva del anticomunismo, muchos obispos dieron un giro a la derecha, identificando, en una constante culture war, la fe católica con la ideología pro life (provida) o el rechazo de las bodas gais, y dejando en un segundo plano las aperturas a la sociedad y a la modernidad del concilio Vaticano II. Finalmente, en estos últimos años, de modo paralelo a la elección de Donald Trump, con el renacimiento de antiguas pulsiones nacionalistas y racistas, tanto en los Estados Unidos como en Europa, ha ido tomando fuerza un nuevo extremismo. Se trata de un «nuevo integrismo medievalista» en conflicto con la «vieja escuela neoconservadora» por la «supremacía en el interior del catolicismo americano conservador», según el análisis de Massimo Faggioli, historiador italiano del cristianismo trasplantado a los Estados Unidos. En suma, ha ido tomando cuerpo un catolicismo casi separado. Tolerado antes de que fuera elegido Jorge Mario Bergoglio, ahora en olor de herejía. Y dispuesto para el cisma31.