1 | 2 | 3

  1. “How I would like a church that is poor and for the poor!”
  2. “Priests must be shepherds with the smell of the sheep.”
  3. “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! Even the atheists. Everyone!”
  4. “We have fallen into a “globalization of indifference.”
  5. “Who am I to judge?”
  6. “I want things messy and stirred up in the church.  I want the church to take to the streets!”
  7. “I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.”
  8. “The papal apartment is like an inverted funnel.  It is big and spacious, but the entrance is really tight.”
  9. “I see the Church as a field hospital after battle.”
  10. “I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.”
  11. “God never tires of forgiving us.”
  12. “The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent.”
  13. “I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life.”
  14. “An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.”
  15. “I am conscious of the need to promote a sound “decentralization.”
  16. “Mercy is the greatest of all virtues.”
  17. “The confessional must not be a torture chamber.”
  18. “The Church is not a tollhouse.”
  19. “I beg you bishops, avoid the scandal of being airport bishops!”
  20. “We need to promote a culture of encounter.”
  21. “Mary, a woman, is more important than bishops.”
  22. “How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?”

 

 

 

Comments powered by CComment

Home | News | Books & Hymns | Sitemap |Contact

Copyright © 2011 www.frfranklin.org. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by eCreators

Contact Us

Rev. Fr. Philiph Franky D’Souza
Mobile: +91 9013905078
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

BRO. T.K. GEORGE
MOBILE : 98453-00074
Email : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.