Birth: April 16, 1927
Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out pruden….
Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors of prisons to those wi….
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways ….
If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resis….
...The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful ma….
Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen..
[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God..
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….
Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys,….
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is m….
Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many peopl….
Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mind….
The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is n….
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome..
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this ….
Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become ….
Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave..
I leave from where the apostle arrived..
The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, ….
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time,….
What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him..