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[Bayard]

Pope talks about the importance of the earth and environmentalism and is surprised that people don’t have any regard for heaven and how a person gets there.

You can’t ignore either the supreme importance of bringing up kids to value heaven in preference over the world. That’s the message people constantly forget and have all but totally forgotten in this age.

[Campion]

Why on earth would you not baptize them before the surgery ?!??

[piusv]

From early on in his pontificate, a distinctive refrain of the Holy Father’s had been that Catholics should remember the day of their baptism and celebrate it. It’s at least as important as a birthday, which every culture remembers and celebrates. Pope Francis has encouraged adults to check with their parents, or to consult the family records, to learn the date of their baptism, which most people do not know. Commemorating baptismal anniversaries will remind Catholics of the supreme importance of baptism, the Holy Father believes.

Does anyone know what article/interview/audience the author is referencing here "from early on in his pontificate"? I would like to see what Francis said about baptism. What is the supreme importance according to him?