Pope Francis- some quotes

FRANCISCUS
1936 – 2025
Pope Francis said:
“The thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful. It needs a nearness, proximity. I see the  church as a field hospital after battle.”

“Oh, how I would like a poor church, and for the poor.”

“The earth, our home is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with
rubbish. Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.”

“We are not God. The earth was here before us and was given to us.”

“The name of God is mercy