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Good evening, all of you.

You came walking here,

making your way through the city

from all sides.

The people who saw you,
asked themselves:

"What are they doing?"

"We walk with Christ

to go and celebrate the Father."

In our city, there are families
that are divided,

hearts that have grown apart.

But we are brothers
and I want to ask you for a sign.

A gesture
that makes us feel like brothers,

but at the same time as 'yeast',

as a fermentation of fraternity,

of brotherhood in our city.

Now, when we hug like brothers,

giving each other fraternal peace,

we give a sign
to this city of Buenos Aires

that it's better
to be united as brothers,

than be distant, estranged and angry.

Now let's give each other
a brotherly embrace.

Good evening!

You know

that the conclave had to

give a Bishop to Rome.

It seems that

my brother Cardinals

went almost to the end of the world
to find one.

But here we are.

The world today

is mostly deaf.

And I think that among ourselves,
the priests,

there are many deaf ones.

I'm talking about getting involved
in people's lives,

I am talking about closeness.

Talk little,

listen a lot,

say just enough,

and always look people in the eye.

This closeness of a priest

reflects an attitude
of spiritual tenderness,

which is what God has for us.

Why did you want to be Pope?

Do you know what it means

when a person
doesn't really love himself?

Somebody who has the desire
to become Pope,

doesn't like himself.

And God doesn't bless him.

No, I never wanted to become Pope.

Is that okay?

You, Francis, why

have you renounced
the riches of a Pope,

like a luxurious apartment,

OT an enormous car?

Instead you prefer
a small apartment nearby,

and you even
take the bus for bishops.

Why have you

renounced to wealth?

Well,

I believe that

our times tell us

of such poverty all over the world,

and that is a scandal!

In a world where

we have such riches,

so many resources
for giving food to everybody,

you cannot understand

how there can be
so many hungry children,

so many children without education,

so many poor!

The poverty today is an outrage!

We must all consider

if we can't become
a little bit poorer.

This is something we all must do:

not have so many things,

and become a bit poorer.

In the first interview I gave,

in which I saluted the journalists

who covered the conclave,

three years ago,

a declaration
came straight from my heart:

How much I wanted
a poor church for the poor!

Jesus tells us in the Gospel

that no one can serve two masters.

We either serve God
or we serve money.

And the big temptation

that was felt throughout history

by Christians, by man,

and by the Church,

has always been wealth.

In the Church there are men,

who have yielded,
and are still yielding

to those temptations.

Dear Brothers.

It is good
to think of the Roman Curia

as a small model of the Church,

or as a 'body'

that strives seriously, every day,

to be more alive,

more healthy, more harmonious

and more united in itself
and with Christ.

However,
since the Curia is a dynamic body,

it cannot live without nourishment

and without healing.

Like any body,

like any human body,

it is also exposed to diseases,

to malfunctioning,

to infirmity.

Here

I'd like to mention
some of these probable diseases.

There are diseases and temptations

that weaken our service to the Lord.

Let's begin with the disease
of thinking we are 'immortal',

'immune',

or downright 'indispensable',

neglecting the need
for regular check-ups.

A Curia which is not self-critical,

which doesn't update

or seeks to improve itself,

is a sick body.

The disease of rivalry
and vaingloriousness...

The disease of 'closed circles'...

The disease of a lugubrious face...

The disease of
'existential schizophrenia'...

The 'spiritual Alzheimer's disease'...

And lastly:

The disease of 'hoarding'.

When an apostle tries to fill
an existential void in his heart

by accumulating material goods,

not out of need

but only in order to feel secure.

As long as there's a church
that places its hope

on wealth,

Jesus

is not there.

I say it again:

as long as the church
is placing its hope on wealth,

Jesus is not there.

It's an NGO

for charity or culture,

but it's not the church of Jesus.

Poverty is at the center
of the gospel!

In 1970,

I had to travel

to a meeting
of teachers for novices.

I'm talking about 1970.

In the city where this took place

they gave me a tour,

and for the first time

I saw a gated community.

A protected neighborhood,

separated from the rest.

I could not understand that,

because in Argentina
I had not yet seen this.

Today they have lots of those.

That is the effect!

We take a small land for ourselves,

for a small group,

and the rest have to get by

with the scraps of Mother Earth
that we left behind.

Dear Brothers and Sisters.

Good morning!

How good it is to be welcomed

with love, generosity and joy.

When we're generous
in welcoming people,

and sharing with them some food,

a place in our homes, our time,

we no longer remain poor,

we are enriched.

I know when someone who needs food

knocks at your door,

you always find a way

of sharing your meal.

As the saying goes:

"You can always add
more water to the beans."

Can one add
more water to the beans?!

Always?

Always!

The Pope is with you!

Holiness,

I'm a worker,

my name is Michele.

My status as worker,

cannot prevent me
from asking, Holiness,

for a plea, on behalf of all those
who have a job,

and we are less and less,

for all those who've lost it,

and they are many,

and for those
who haven't yet found work,

and those are plenty.

We need to believe
that work is sacred.

Thank you, Holiness.

Think about it

that among young people
of 25 or less

more than 40% don't have work!

What do young people do
without a job?

What future do they have?

What path of life do they choose?

This is serious!

When you don't earn the bread,

you lose your dignity!

This lack of work...

This lack of work

robs us of dignity!

We must fight for this,

we must defend our dignity,

as citizens, as men and women,
as young people.

That is the tragedy of our time.

We must not remain silent.

No!

The way to escape consumerism,

this corruption,

this competitiveness,

this being enslaved to money,

is the concreteness
of day-to-day work,

is tangible reality!

I like to talk about the three 'T's:

'trabajo' (work),

'tierra' (land) and 'techo' (roof).

'Roof' means home, family.

Recovering this sense of family.

'Land' means work,

cultivating the land.

And work means precisely

the most noble thing that man has:

to imitate God with your hands

by creating!

My brother!

Sisters, brothers,

good evening.

I want to clarify,

that I am speaking
about common problems

of all Latin Americans

and generally
of humanity as a whole.

Do we recognize, in all sincerity,
that things are not going well?

In a world where there are
so many farmers without land,

so many families without a home,

so many workers without rights,

so many persons
whose dignity is harmed?

Do we realize
that things don't go well,

when soil, water and air

and all living beings of creation

are under permanent threat?

So, if we realize all this,

let's say it without fear:

we need,

and we want change!

We want change in our lives,

in our neighborhoods,

in our paychecks,

and in our everyday reality.

Let's say 'No!'

to an economy
of exclusion and inequality

where money rules

instead of serving.

This economy kills!

This economy excludes.

This economy destroys Mother Earth.

A mother and her children,

the common house and its inhabitants

go together,

they go together.

Mother Earth,

'Sister Earth',
as Saint Francis called her.

That's why I started the encyclical

with the hymn of Saint Francis.

They go together.

And if today you ask me:

for you,

who is the poorest
of the poorest of the poor,

I would say: Mother Earth!

We have plundered her!

We have abused her!

The theology
contained in 'Laudato Si'

is in dialogue with science.

Today, well never,
could you practice theology

without a dialogue with science.

More than that:

God gave us
the capacity for investigation,

the intellectual ability
to look for truths.

Obviously

the biblical story of creation

is a mythical form of expression

to explain what happened.

But it is a development,

an evolution.

God, when

he sent Man to dominate the Earth,

entrusted something
uncultivated to him.

So, man began

transforming the uncultivated
into something cultivated.

This is what we understand
as progress in science,

in art,

in technology,

in scientific research,

that man is transforming

this not-knowing,
this lack of culture into culture.

We are all called upon,

not just Adam and Eve,
all of us, to create culture.

But when someone feels

that he owns this culture
and feels all-powerful,

the temptation arises

to go further,

and destroy the culture.

Think of the feat

of the discovery of nuclear energy;

and think of Hiroshima.

In all religions

the environment
is a fundamental good.

Its abuse and destruction, however,

are accompanied

by a continuous process
of exclusion.

The poorest

are the ones who suffer most
from these attacks

for three serious reasons:

they are discarded by society,

forced at the same time

to live on the leftovers,

and have to suffer unjustly

from the abuse of the environment.

These phenomena correspond

to today's widespread

and quietly growing

'culture of waste'.

This is a shame

for each and every one of us!

And we are all responsible!

No one can say:

"I have nothing to do with this."

We're all responsible.

The 'law of nature',
if we call it that,

says that the world
should live in harmony,

that all things
should be in harmony,

the entire creation.

So things that go against
this harmony of creation

are bad!

I think for instance

of water, contaminated

by mining activities
that spill arsenic and cyanide,

just as an example.

All this to the effect that

the surrounding area,
for kilometers,

offers its population water

that causes diseases.

But the government,
allowed that to happen!

So, do I resist by fighting
the law that allowed it?

Yes.
I'm protecting a greater good!

The health of that population

and the overall good of humanity.

Saint Francis, in history,

stands for

a revitalization
of the figure of Christ,

in a completely radical,
absolute way.

His poverty, 'Sister Poverty'.

His love of the poor and the sick,

and his care for them.

His patience

with people and with their frailty,

including the frailty
of his brothers and disciples.

A man

of such patience and understanding

then transforms

into a man of dialogue.

Something I want to point out
about dialogue,

of which Francis had a lot.

And I'll say it
in very simple words:

He was the apostle of the ear.

Knowing how to listen!

At times,
the speed of the modern world,

its frenzy,

keeps us from listening well

to what others are saying.

Someone is halfway
through a dialogue,

and we already interrupt

and want to answer before
the other one has finished talking.

Not losing the capacity to listen!

And Francis is a listener.
He listened to the voice of God,

he listened
to the voice of the poor,

to the voice of the sick,
and to the voice of nature.

And he transformed all of this
into a way of life.

And I hope that the seed of Francis

grows in many hearts.

You know

who was first
declared a saint in the church?

A prisoner.

He was sentenced to death

next to Christ, who told him:

"Today you will be with me
in paradise!"

Society must learn
from this example of Christ!

We all need to receive forgiveness.

But God tells us in the bible:
"When He forgives,

He forgets!"

And if I say:
"This man is a sinner, he did that!"

I'm sinning!

Because when He forgets,

who am I not to forget?

Living implies,

getting our feet dirty

from the dust-filled roads of life.

It is painful to note

that people think

that only a few

need to be washed,

and don't realize
that your weariness and pain,

your wounds, are also the wounds,

of an entire society.

The Lord shows this to us clearly

with the help of a gesture:

He washes our feet

so we can come back to the table.

A table that is spread for all,

and to which we are all invited.

All young people today
are idealists

in the good sense of the word.

But most young people
seek something.

Also when they make mistakes,

even serious mistakes, I think,

they're looking for something else.

And even in their alienation

young people are expressing

their non-conformism

with the world they have to live in.

They get estranged.

I'd even dare to say something

that some might not like,

about drug addiction.

When young people
fall victim to an addiction,

it's because there is in their heart

a dissatisfaction.

The model of Francis
shows them a way,

a revolutionary path.

You don't have to be scared

of this word, because in the Gospel,

when Jesus talks

about what he came
to bring to Earth,

he used language just as strong.

A change in the 'modus vivendi'

at that time, in a conformist
and self-satisfied society

that already cast aside,

rejected those,

that didn't belong
to its social nucleus.

And Francis obeyed that calling.

If today
a young person hears Francis,

he feels him touch his heart.

I only ask of God

that I won't become
indifferent to suffering,

so Death will not find me

empty and alone,
not having done enough.

I only ask of God

that I won't become
indifferent to injustice.

The first time we met
was 1969 in Cordoba.

I didn't think
he'd see me among so many people.

But then they opened the barrier

and helped me to go down.

And the Pope said,
"No, Maruca, I come to you!"

Then I stood still,

and gave him a hug, too.

He had recognized me from up there.

That surprised me a lot.

I was very grateful.

It's really a pity

that he doesn't have time anymore.

But he has a different mission here.

He's now the shepherd
of the whole world.

And with his charisma

he appeals not only to Catholics.

You've seen that
he's the kind of person,

who speaks with everybody.

His life itself is a sermon.

God sends us the Pope that we need
for each stage of the Earth.

Today, really,

we live with the accelerator down
from morning to night.

This ruins mental health,

spkflualheafih,

and physical health.

More so:
it affects and destroys the family,

and therefore society.

"On the Seventh day, He rested."

What the Jews

followed and still observe,

was to consider the Sabbath as holy.

On Saturday you rest.

One day of the week,

that's the least!

Out of gratitude,

to worship God,

to spend time
with the family, to play,

to do all these things.

We are not machines!

So when we live
such a fast-paced life,

we lose

our most human gestures.

A husband forgets

the day he got engaged to his wife,

parents forget
to caress their children

or the grandparents,

because there's no time
for a caress,

there's no time for tenderness.

There's no time to enjoy life,

which is so beautiful!

I like

to hear confession.

Nowadays I do it very little,

I can't.

In Buenos Aires, I did it a lot,

and people came to confess.

When men or women came,

from a young marriage,

and told me about their children,

I'd ask how many children they had,
they'd tell me,

and then I'd say:
"I have a question."

That scared them a bit.

"What is the priest
going to ask me!"

And the question was:
"Do you play with your children?"

I want to ask
all fathers and mothers

who are listening:

"Do you play with your children?

Do you lose time
with your children?"

I would like permission
to ask a delicate question:

How does Your Holiness

intend to confront
the question of the gay lobby?

If a person is gay,

and is searching for the Lord,

and has good will,

then who am I to judge him?

We must be brothers to each other...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

explains this beautifully.

It says: no one
should be marginalized for this,

they should be integrated
into society.

Women have a distinctly different way
of looking at things than men.

I've had consultation meetings

about a given problem

with male members,

and then the same with female members.

And the input of women
is extraordinarily rich!

It's necessary!

The world cannot move forward

if there is no complementarity

or reciprocity

between men and women.

Obviously,

the macho and feminist movements
are of no help,

because they are isolated movements.

The useful movements are those based

on reciprocal
and complementary approaches.

We have to integrate women!

Because a world without

the leadership,
advice and vision of women

cannot advance.

Thank you, Holy Father, for your
availability under these circumstances.

You've spoken out very forcefully

against the sexual abuse of minors,

on behalf of the clergy.

You created a special commission

to better deal with this problem,
at the level of the universal church.

What would you do,

if a bishop just didn't respect
these obligations?

The abuse of minors

is an offense so brutal, so...

We know it's a serious
problem everywhere,

but I'm concerned with the Church!

A priest

who does this

betrays the body of the Lord!

Because this priest
must lead this boy or girl,

or these young people,

to holiness.

These young men and women trust him,

and instead of leading them to holiness,

he abuses them.

And this is extremely serious!

The Church

cannot remain

indifferent to this.

Towards pedophilia,

zero tolerance!

And the Church

must punish

such priests

who have that problem,

and bishops

must remove
from their priestly functions

anyone with that disease,

that tendency to pedophilia,

and that includes

to support

the legal action

by the parents

before the civil courts.

There is no other way out of this!

Zero tolerance,

because it's

a crime, no, worse!

It's leaving them alive, but destroyed.

So many of you have lost everything.

I don't know what to say to you,

or1lY

to keep silence

and accompany you

in my heart, silently.

We are not alone.

We have Jesus,

our older brother.

And we also have many brothers,

who at the moment

of catastrophe

came to our assistance.

Forgive me if I have no other words.

But with the strength
that Jesus gives us,

our older brother,

let us move forward.

As brothers,

let us walk together!

Human life is a road

that'll come to an end.

We all die a little every clay.

Sometimes,

we avoid thinking about our own death

and live as if we're never going to die.

And this is

dangerous, as it doesn't lead to wisdom.

Two weeks ago,

I got a letter

from the aunt of a boy,

8 years old.

He had cancer.

Terminal.

He told his Mom
that he'd like to talk to Pope Francis.

The mother let me know,

and I called.

He was sleeping.

So I left a message on his mobile.

The next day I didn't call.

The boy said:
"The Pope was offended,

because I didn't answer his call."

The next day I called again,

he slept, so I left a message.

And that made him happy.

I tried once more the following day.

This time his mother answered
and said: "He's very sick.

I don't know if he'll be able to talk."

And she put the phone on loudspeaker,

I talked to him,

and he said: "Thank you, thank you!"

A few hours later he died.

That boy knew he was going to die,

he had the wisdom.

However,

he died,
and I want to underline this word:

he was reconciled with his own death.

It's very wise to reconcile ourselves

with the fact that we will die.

So how do I think about my own death?

Once I came close,

when I was young.

I escaped the danger of dying,

but I know that

through the little deaths of every day

one day...

I will go.

When? Whenever the Lord wants,

however He wants.

But...

I am not eternal.

Nobody is,

only God.

"Why do the innocents suffer?"

Or the big question

that the great Dostoevsky asked:

"Why do children suffer?"

It's a question

that we all ask ourselves.

And if you ask me why children suffer,

the only thing I can say is:

"Look at the Child of God on a cross."

I don't know
what other answer to give to you.

But let's talk about why God allows it,

which is the core of the question.

Quite simply, because

he created us as persons,

and as such: free!

God is respectful of freedom.

He allowed his son
to be killed on the cross.

The game of human freedom:

God risked a lot here!

It would more

dishonor man,

if God could take away his freedom,

than

if man, with his freedom,

committed a crime.

And here

is the game of love!

Without freedom we cannot love.

Because love implies a choice.

The ultimate love,

the parents' love for their child,
and vice versa,

the love of a couple,

between bride and groom,

the love for life,
the love of people

all imply an option:

Either I love, or I don't,

or I hate.

But if I didn't have
that freedom of choice,

I could not love.

Moshe Ha-Elion,
born in Thessaloniki, Greece.

After the German occupation
in April 1943,

he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Sonia Tunik-Geron,

born in Stolpce, formerly Poland.

After the German invasion in 1941,

she was deported
with her family to the ghetto...

"Adam, where are you?"

Man, where are you?

What have you come to?

In this place,

the memorial to the Shoah,

we feel God's question echo once more:

"Adam, where are you?"

In this call

there's all the sorrow of a father,
who has lost a son.

The Father knew the risk of freedom.

He knew
that his children could get lost.

But perhaps not even the Father

could have imagined so deep a fall,

so profound an abyss!

Man, who are you?

Who corrupted you?

Who disfigured you?

Who infected you to assume

that you were the master
over good and evil?

Who convinced you that you were God?

A great evil has befallen us,

as it never happened under the sky.

Now, Lord, hear our prayers,

hear our pleas,

save us in your mercy.

Give us the grace to be ashamed

of what we were able to do as men!

Never again, Lord!

Never again.

We need to be on guard
against the sad danger

of the 'globalization of indifference',

which leads us to slowly get used to

the suffering of others,

as if it was something normal.

It's tragic

that the rising number of migrants

are not recognized as refugees

by international conventions.

We cannot remain indifferent

in front of this.

We don't have the right!

Dear Brothers and Sisters.

I have wanted to be with you today,

and tell you that you are not alone.

In these months and weeks

you have endured much suffering

in your search for a better life.

Many of you

have felt forced to flee

from situations of conflict
and persecution,

above all for the sake of your children

and your little ones.

You've made big sacrifices
for your families.

You know the sorrow
of having left behind

all that was dear to you.

And what is perhaps most difficult:

without knowing

what the future might possibly

bring along.

God created mankind to be one family.

When any of our brothers
and sisters suffer,

we are all affected.

We have come
to call the attention of the world

to this serious humanitarian crisis,

and to plead for its resolution.

We hope that
the world will pay attention

to this situation of tragic needs,

that is truly desperate,

and that it will respond in a way

that is worthy of our common humanity.

These people

are victims of a global injustice!

Why do they have to leave their land?

For war, or hunger.

If we take a look at the statistics...

Around 80%

of the world's riches

are in the hands
of less than 20% of humanity.

There is an inequality

in the economic balance,

and that inequality

marginalizes,

excludes, casts aside!

The process of integration is difficult.

Obviously we are here facing

the challenge of differences.

And differences

always scare us

because they make us grow.

Uniformity

doesn't make us grow,

so it doesn't scare us.

Differences are creative,
they create tension,

and resolving this tension
moves humanity forward.

I have always said that

building walls

is not a solution.

We've seen,

in the last century,

the fall of one...

No, it resolves nothing!

We must build bridges,

bridges that are made intelligently,

with dialogue and integration.

Closing the borders

solves nothing!

Because that, in the long run,

harms its own people.

Honorable Members of Congress,

dear friends.

I am most grateful for your invitation

to address
this Joint Session of Congress

'in the land of the free
and the home of the brave'.

Our world

is facing

a refugee crisis of a magnitude

not seen

since the Second World War.

This presents us with great challenges

and many hard decisions.

On this continent, too,

thousands of persons

are led to travel north

in search of a better life
for themselves,

and for their loved ones.

We must not be taken aback
by their numbers,

but rather view them as persons,

seeing their faces

and listening to their stories.

We, the people of this continent,

are not fearful of foreigners,

because most of us

were once foreigners.

Let us remember the Golden Rule:

"Do unto others, as you...

would have them do unto you."

If we want security,

let us give security.

If we want life,

let us give life.

If we want opportunities,

let us provide these opportunities.

Being at the service
of dialogue and peace

also means being truly determined

to minimize,

and in the long term,

to end

the many armed conflicts
throughout our world.

Here we have to ask ourselves:

Why...

are deadly weapons being sold

to those who plan
to inflict untold suffering

on individuals and society?

Sadly, the answer,

as we all know, is simply for money.

Money that is drenched in blood.

It is our duty

to stop the arms trade.

Yesterday I had a dialogue
with the Grand Imam

of Al-Azhar of Egypt,

a Muslim, the greatest
representative of Sunni Islam.

And we were able
to talk about God very fraternally,

because we both understood
each other as brothers.

But never

- I want to underline this:

never take a proselytizing attitude!

Never.

There are some that say no,

that the God of Muslims

is not the same as ours...

We are children of Abraham!

Nobody can deny that.

And therefore we are brothers,

if we like it or not.

We are brothers!

God does not see with His eyes.

God sees with His heart.

And God's love

is the same

for each and every person.

No matter what your religion is.

Even for an atheist

it's the same love.

When the final day comes,

and when there's light enough on Earth

to see things as they are,

we will be in for a surprise!

Do you believe

that Mahatma Gandhi

or Martin Luther King

are less loved by God

than a priest or a nun?

God loves

and sees us all with his heart.

And maybe

that's the only common bond
all men have,

the bond of God's love.

Other than that we are free.

Even free not to love him.

None of us is an island,

autonomous and independent from others.

We can only build the future together,

without excluding anyone.

How wonderful would it be

if the growth of scientific
and technological innovation

would come along

with more equality and social inclusion.

How wonderful would it be,

while we discover faraway planets,

to rediscover the needs
of the brothers and sisters,

who are orbiting around us.

Only by an education in fraternity

towards a real solidarity

can we overcome the 'culture of waste',

that doesn't just concern
food and goods,

but first of all people.

Please allow me to say it clearly:

the more powerful you are,

the more your actions
will have an impact on people,

the more you are called to be humble!

Otherwise, your power will ruin you,

and you will ruin the others.

Tenderness is not weakness,

it is strength!

Tenderness makes us
use our eyes to see the other,

our ears to hear the other,

to listen to the cries of the children,

the poor,

those who are afraid of the future.

To also listen to the silent cry

of our common home,
our sick and polluted Earth.

We have so much to do,

and we must do it together.

In the darkness of the conflicts
we're living through,

each of us

can become a bright candle to remind us

that light will overcome darkness,

and never the other way around.

To us Christians

the future has a name,

and its name is Hope.

It's the virtue of a heart
that doesn't lock itself up,

that doesn't dwell on the past,

and not only survives the present,

but is able to see a tomorrow.

And one of the things
that helps others in their lives

is the expression of beauty.

An artist

is an apostle of beauty,

who helps others live.

Let's think of all the artists
who achieved that.

But also all of us!

And if you ask me:
"Give me an example

of beauty,

simple everyday beauty,

with which we can help others
feel better

and be happier,"

two things come to my mind.

A smile,

and a sense of humor.

The ability to smile!

A smile is the flower of the heart,

especially when it is given freely,

not for manipulative
and seductive aims.

Just a smile.

'A fresh smile'
as it's called in literature.

And the sense of humor.

Here I make a personal confession.

Every day.

After my morning prayer,

I recite Saint Thomas More.

His "Prayer for good Humor"

'Sense of humor'

It starts in a way
that makes you laugh.

"Give me, oh Lord, a good digestion,

but also something to digest."

That's it.