Sentence examples for more merciful and from inspiring English sources

Francis, himself a Jesuit, chastised the church's narrow focus on controversial social issues and called instead for a more merciful and less judgmental church.

Francis has long called for the church to be less legalistic and more merciful and understanding of the needs of its flock.

Francis' offer is not without precedent — Pope John Paul II enabled priests to offer the same absolution during the last Holy Year, in 2000 — yet it shows his broader push to make Catholicism more merciful and welcoming.

In an interview with the Herald, a Scottish newspaper, Saif Qaddafi, the son of Libya's ruler, said Mr Megrahi's release had made Libyans and Arabs think of the British and Scottish as more "merciful and more civilised" and less as Islam-hating "crusaders".A nice thought, but it is not doing Mr Salmond much good.

Women are more merciful and more pious.

In various sermons and comments since his surprise election last Wednesday, the pope has urged people to be more merciful and not to be so quick to condemn the failings of others.

Somerset ruled in loco parentis; the divinity of the crown resided in the boy king, but authority was exercised by an uncle who proved himself to be more merciful than tactful and more idealistic than practical.

I know that our faith community can be better, more effective, more merciful, more just and more welcoming.

Although it is common to shoot old and frail horses — and more merciful than a ride to the slaughterhouse — there are too many of them to be dealt with, and there is some money in rounding them up and selling them at auction.

You are passionate about ideas that have the power to make you and others bigger, finer, stronger, more courageous, more generous and more merciful.

Her parents told her that God was more merciful than she thought, and that people who did good would go to Heaven on the Day of Judgment, regardless of what they believed.