Birth: April 16, 1927
An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others..
Purity of heart is what enables us to see..
To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to bring others to him: Indeed, we cannot….
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of….
Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and s….
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….
Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, c….
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church..
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is m….
Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath ….
Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are….
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time..
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred,….
With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped t….
The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Ch….
By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the….
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even th….
Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore be made in order for all Chris….
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters….
Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to reali….
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, ….