J’ai été choisi sans aucun mérite et, avec crainte et tremblements, je viens à vous comme un frère qui veut se faire le serviteur de votre foi et de votre joie, en marchant avec vous sur le chemin de l’amour de Dieu, qui veut que nous soyons tous unis en une seule famille.
For both producers and consumers of news about Pope Francis, one recommendation I have is to resist applying the terms and categories of American politics to a nearly two millennia-old global religious institution
“I am atheist, but seeing the kindness of this man and the peace he offered the mind of a child brings tears to my eyes.” Commenter
Pope Francis has the Good Shepherd’s heart. He comforts the afflicted &brings the haughty low. Here,he consoles a boy whose father died an atheist.
In a time-honoured tradition to mark the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a firefighter makes the 27-metre climb to place a garland on the statue of the Madonna in Piazza Mignanelli.
Esto del Rey, sí.
Ha sido capaz de soportar la indignación, un ataque físico, comprender, intentar calmar la situación, escuchar, trasladar su empatía en lo posible, negarse a que ningún paraguas le proteja y negarse a huir como ha hecho el 'otro'.
Incluso el Presidente de la Comunitat se ha quedado. Y ojo porque esto es más profundo de lo que parece. Mucho más.
In these trying times, I feel it's my patriotic duty as a Canadian to remind my American friends who are watching their former head of state debate their current head of state that there is a better way: