Birth: April 16, 1927
Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin agai….
Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to liv….
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good..
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious f….
The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Ch….
Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in t….
Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and c….
Forgiveness does not replace justice..
Nature expresses a design of love and truth..
Truth is not determined by a majority vote..
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart..
We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even tim….
Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the ….
The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem..
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility….
When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness of his gift; but we also e….
The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional..
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation ….
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation..
The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that we love God be….
Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recogni….