Birth: April 16, 1927
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God s….
During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives..
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord..
The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witne….
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit..
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering..
I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth..
You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed sown in ….
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..
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down….
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a lega….
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordinati….
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged..
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth..
Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours so we won't sink, but wi….
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated f….
Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because….
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content t….
Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care….
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, t….
That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missi….