Pope says faith is a gift that cannot be bought

(ANSA) - Vatican City, January 15 - Pope Francis said at a Vatican Mass Friday that "faith is a gift" that can lead to repentance.
    "No one 'deserves' faith. No one can buy it," the pope went on in a homily at St Martha's House, the residence where he lives inside the Vatican after spurning the luxury of the papal apartments.
    "Does my faith in Jesus Christ bring me to humiliation? I'm not saying to humility: to humiliation, to repentance, to the prayer that asks: Forgive me, Father. You are God. You 'can' forgive my sins".
    The pope opened an extraordinary Jubilee year devoted to mercy in December.