Detroit church renames warming center after Pope Francis

“Be careful. Beware anyone who might be a little fast and very clever who tells you have to pay. No!”

Archbishop Charles Chaput says he was amazed by the energy Pope Francis showed when he was in Philadelphia at the end of September – capping a tour that began in Cuba, wound through Washington and NY, and ended here. Salvation can not be paid for, salvation can not be bought.

The pope’s warning comes one day after Rome’s financial police seized fake parchments – worth an estimated 70,000 euros – that were sold at a souvenir shop near the Vatican, according to a report by The Associated Press Dec. 14. “There has to be security to watch out for people’s dignity”, he told journalists December 4.

Bergoglio, the first pope from the Americas, took his papal title after St. Francis of Assisi of Italy.

The renaming as the “Pope Francis Center” also coincides with the recent start of the worldwide Year of Mercy instituted by the pope.

“It is a sign of a true conversion of the heart”, the pope said. “Running after the latest fad, like accumulating followers on any of the social networks”, Pope Francis had said during his U.S. visit.

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday said today’s globalization of indifference is rooted in a distorted or unbalanced humanism in which “man has taken the place of God and therefore has become in turn a victim of various forms of idolatry”. He said the Catholic Church through its Jubilee of Mercy wishes to encourage this process by spreading throughout the world the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation.

For his 79th birthday, the pontiff received a birthday cake from Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki during his weekly general audience on Wednesday.