Birth: April 16, 1927
The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people..
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic….
[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the….
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love..
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we ….
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sin….
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about w….
Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world..
If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with….
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a since….
Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises..
The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable wit….
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ..
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….
Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed, st….
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own..
Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves... ….
Violence against even one human being is violence against all..
We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of his will to complete his ….
Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the d….
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure..