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It is big and spacious ... and I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others."
He even lived in the Casa Santa Marta guesthouse instead of the papal apartments, saying of the latter
If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge him?"
When asked about gay people in the Church in 2013, Pope Francis' response caused a stir
He changed the way we think about service to others and service to all and who is worthy of being served by a pope and respected by a pope,
Bennett said
He also had a strong awareness of the global nature of the church,
Bennett saidI think to him, everyone is deserving of a blessing,
Bennett saidI saw the way he interacted,
Bennett told Fox News DigitalEven as pope, he wanted to be treated as an ordinary person,
Bennett said[The ... The People’s Pope] is absolutely the best way to describe him,
Jana Bennett, professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton in Ohio, told Fox News DigitalI think all of those things showed up in Pope Francis’ papacy,
Bennett saidHe surrounded himself with advisors,
Bennett saidHe believed that everybody should be hopeful,
Bennett saidI think that you can't understand Pope Francis' papacy without attending to the very direct one-on-one way that he would reach out to people,
she saidThe earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.”
While the encyclical came from the warnings of previous pontiffs, Pope Francis was far more hard-hitting
That’s the courage of Pope Francis, ... to bring the Gospels to the forefront.”
Mr. Schmalz said
It’s putting the Gospel into practice because caring for people is one of the aspects of charity,
said Dr. RalliHow I would like a church that is poor and for the poor.”
Shortly after he was elected in 2013 he saidThe paper incarnates everything Pope Francis taught us about social issues and service of charity,
Mr. Di Domenicantonio saidThe pope has had a very strong focus on the poor from the beginning,
said Carlo Santoro of the Sant’Egidio Community, a Rome-based charity that runs the buildingIt doesn’t matter if it doesn’t match the Berninis, it matches the Gospels,
Cardinal Krajewski had retorted ... according to Mr. SchmalzFrancis gave immense emphasis to aid to the poor, not just the poor in Rome, but the poor around the world,
he added, citing trips by Cardinal Krajewski to take supplies to Ukraine