Franco Pisano

"Every day in prayer, I bring before the Lord the sufferings and the needs of the Churches and of the peoples of those beloved lands". Among the "praiseworthy" initiatives promoted as part of the Church's response to the current crises, the Pontiff cites the "great work to support the return of Christian communities to the Nineveh plain" in Iraq

"Our victory is the cross of Jesus, victory before our enemy, the great ancient serpent, the Great Accuser". In the cross "we were saved, in that path that Jesus chose to sink to the very lowest point, but with the power of divinity ".

Today's meeting is a lead-up to a summit with the presidents of the 113 Bishops' Conferences of the world on 21-24 February 2019.

"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly". These are the four "details" to live the Christian life highlighted by Francis. "Among us is the great accuser, the one who always accuses us before God, to destroy us. Satan".

Sin is "slavery of one's ego": "the greedy, the lustful, the avaricious, the irascible, the envious, the slothful, the arrogant — and so on — are slaves of their vices, which tyrannize and torment them." "Today it takes courage to get married".

Francis made the announcement during a meeting this morning with members of the Tensho Kenoho Shisetsu Kenshokai Association. For the pontiff, “religion, culture and the economy can work together peacefully to create a more humane world marked by an integral ecology.”

"The strength of the bishop against the Great Accuser is prayer, that of Jesus on him and his own; and the humility of feeling chosen and remaining close to God's people, without going towards an aristocratic life that takes away this anointing ".

"The call of Jesus is a call to a new way of living". "Someone can say, 'But, father, we are weak, we are sinners ...' - 'Ah, this is something else. If you accept to be sinful and weak, He forgives you, because part of the novelty of the Gospel is to confess that Jesus Christ came for the forgiveness of sins. But if you say you are a Christian living with these worldly novelty, no, this is hypocrisy ".

The conclusions of the 9th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. Several pilot projects announced, the first of which will be implemented in Brazil. During the plenary, some members had the opportunity to address the two training courses for new neo-ordained bishops.

“It is precisely the heart, that is the deep core of the person, that Jesus came to ‘open up’, to free, to enable us to live fully the relationship with God and others. He became man because man, made interiorly deaf and dumb by sin, can hear God’s voice”.

Receiving the Italian Parents Association, Francis recommends them to "always cultivate and nurture trust in schools and teachers". When he was a child his mother made him apologize to his teacher.

In an interview, Francis says that a healthy economy "is never disconnected from the meaning of what is produced and economic activity is always also an ethical fact". What is more, “An ethics friendly to people tends to overcome the rigid distinction between profit-driven organisations and those based not on the exclusive mechanism of profits, leaving ample space for activities that constitute and expand the so-called third sector."