Pope Francis: Complaining is ‘poison’ for the heart

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

By Hannah Brockhaus via Catholic News Agency

 

VATICAN — Complaining and blaming others is a waste of time; the way to defeat evil is to conquer it first within our own hearts, Pope Francis said Sunday.

 

“If we look inside, we will find almost all that we despise outside. And if, sincerely, we ask God to purify our heart, that is when we will start making the world cleaner,” the pope said in his weekly Sunday Angelus message.

 

“Because there is an infallible way to defeat evil: by starting to conquer it within yourself.”

 

From a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis spoke Aug. 29 about the need to stop blaming others for everything wrong in the world and in our lives.

 

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