The Name of God Is Mercy
of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, 7 December 1965.
    4.   Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
Lumen Gentium
, 16: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
Gaudium et Spes
, 15.
    5.   Saint Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologiae
, II–II, q. 30. a. 4.
    6.   XXVI Sunday in Ordinary Time. This Collect already appears in the eighth century among the euchological texts of the Gelasian Sacramentary (1198).
    7.   Cf.
Homily 22: CCL
, 122, 149–151.
    8.   Apostolic Exhortation
Evangelii Gaudium
, 24.
    9.   No. 2.
    10.   Saint John Paul II, Encyclical Letter
Dives in Misericordia
, 15.
    11.   Ibid., 13.
    12.   
Words of Light and Love
, 57.
    13.   
Homilies on the Psalms
, 76, 11.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
            
    P OPE F RANCIS
    Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936. On March 13, 2013, he became the Bishop of Rome and the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. On March 13, 2015, he announced his Holy Year of Mercy, which began on December 8, 2015, and will end on November 20, 2016.
    @Pontifex
    A NDREA T ORNIELLI is a veteran Vatican reporter, correspondent for
La Stampa
, and director of the Vatican Insider website. He also writes for a variety of Italian and international magazines. His publications include the first biography of the Pope,
Francis: Pope of a New World
, which was translated into sixteen languages, and
This Economy Kills: Pope Francis on Capitalism and Social Justice
, which was translated into nine languages.

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