You shouldn’t have to work if there’s a bird outside you want to watch

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

"We have not committed sin, yet we sin. We sin by omission. If there is anyone homeless,anyone without food or fire, even anyone without work, whose fault is it? Whose sin is it? If there is anyone among us who does not know God...whose fault is it if not ours?"

Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani