Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome..

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us..

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Thr….

While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charis….

Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particula….

Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not ….

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….

Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a thr….

Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared ….

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he ha….

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the femini….

Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pa….

The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culmin….

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adora….

I leave from where the apostle arrived..

The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospe….

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us..

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself..

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after ponderin….

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart..

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may s….