Carol Glatz, Author at Crux

“Love is the engine that drives our hope forward,” says pope

“To bear fruit, Jesus lived love all the way, letting himself be broken by death like a seed under the earth. Precisely there, at that extreme point of his lowering himself, which is also the highest point of love, hope germinated,” Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience.

Most important and costliest medicine? Love, pope tells patients

Speaking to patients, their family members, and medical personnel from the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu children’s hospital in Rome, Pope Francis warned of “the risk of forgetting the most important medicine only a family can give — caresses.”

Egypt’s attacks won’t stop pope’s visit for peace, says Vatican official

Pope Francis will be visiting Egypt despite the terror attacks that took place last week targeting the country’s minority Christian communities, a Vatican spokesman confirmed. The pope is scheduled to meet governmental and interfaith leaders during an April 28-29 visit to Cairo.

Pope to seminarians: Using church for personal ambition is a ‘plague’
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- April 3, 2017
“I’m telling you this as a brother, father and friend. Please, shun ecclesial careerism. It is a plague. Avoid it,” Pope Francis said during an audience at the Vatican with students, faculty, staff and alumni of the Pontifical Spanish College of St. Joseph in Rome. “Do not forget this — the devil always comes in through the pocket, always,” he said.
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Pope to Christians, Protestants: Stop prejudice, forgive sins of past
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- March 31, 2017
During a congress in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Pope Francis called members of both faiths to forget “prejudice toward the faith that others profess” and to “offer one another forgiveness for the sins committed by those who have gone before us.”
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Pope: God promises the ‘impossible,’ asks people hope
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- March 29, 2017
Real Christian hope “is not based on human reasoning, predictions and assurances,” Pope Francis said during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square March 29. Hope arises “where there is no more hope, where there is nothing left to hope for.”
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