Pope Francis Quotes
When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm here.' The Lord speaks this way, too... Usually, Christmas seems like a very noisy feast, but we can use a bit of silence to hear these words of love, closeness and tenderness.
Pope Francis. "The Tenderness of God." Morning Meditation in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, 12 Dec. 2013, Vatican, www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/cotidie/2013/documents/papa-francesco-cotidie_20131212_tenderness-god.html.
Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century.