Articles By ZENIT Staff

JUBILEE AUDIENCE: On Conversion

‘When Jesus calls to conversion He does not erect Himself as a judge of persons, but does so beginning by closeness, by sharing the human condition; hence, of the street, of the home, of the table … Mercy towards all those in need of changing their life happened with His kind presence, to involve each one in His history of salvation.’

Pope's Address at Villa Nazareth

«May He free us from priests in a hurry or who are always going in a hurry, always, they don’t have time to listen, to see, they have to do their things …; that He free us from Doctors who want to present Jesus Christ’s faith with a mathematical rigidity; and that He teach us to stop, and teach us that wisdom of the Gospel: ‘to soil one’s hands.’”