Pope Francis: If You Do Not Forgive, ‘You Will Not Be Forgiven’
Pope Francis warned pilgrims to Rome on Wednesday that God’s mercy is available only to those willing to forgive other people.
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Pope Francis: Only Those Who ‘Acknowledge Their Faults’ Receive Forgiveness
The reception of God’s mercy in dependent upon a person’s acknowledgement of his sins, Pope Francis said Wednesday, because “the proud person is unable to receive forgiveness.”
Video: Charlotte Mob Beats Up Man Pleading For Mercy
Several men charged the man, cursing at him as they chased into a parking garage and kicked him repeatedly as they drug him around the floor and stripped his pants off.
Pope Francis: We Are All ‘Adulterers’ Before God
In his weekly Angelus address Sunday, Pope Francis commented on the meeting of Jesus with an adulterous woman, observing that the woman is an image of all humanity, since we are all “adulterers” who have cheated on God’s love.
Pope Francis: Forgiving Is ‘What God Likes Best’
After officially kicking off the Jubilee Year Tuesday, Pope Francis addressed crowds on Wednesday, telling them that the purpose of a Holy Year is to “live mercy” and that what God likes best is “forgiving his children.”
Pope Francis: God Doesn’t Acquit Because of ‘Lack of Evidence’
In his homily Friday morning, Pope Francis said that when God forgives us, He knows full well that we are guilty, not like a judge who acquits a criminal for lack of evidence; yet He pardons us anyway.
Charleston Forgiveness Was Christian, Not Racial
For those without faith, Michael Wear acknowledges, this may make little sense, especially for those who have never personally experienced the forgiveness of God. “But that does not grant us the right to whitewash the motivation for the forgiveness we witnessed in Charleston,” he said. We need to “take the family members seriously when they say it is a sincere, thought-out expression of their faith,” he wrote.
