WHO AM I TO JUDGE?

Key quotes from Pope Francis’s papacy:

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“Pray for me” - pronounced at the end of every speech, because, he once explained, “I am a sinner too.” His first tweet and first post on Instagram were versions of the mantra.

The poor

“How I would like a poor church for the poor” - setting the tone for his pontificate, three days afer his election in March 2013.

Tolerance

“If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?” - groundbreaking signal of a more tolerant church, July 2013.

Inequality

“The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose” - opposition to economic inequality spelled out in 2013 Apostolic Exhortation.

Environment

“The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth” - from his June 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si.

Clerical sex abuse