Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who asks us to place at the center of our lives….

I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we rece….

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding ….

Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, n….

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness..

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very….

Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations ar….

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally..

The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply of certai….

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith..

It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation o….

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?.

In the eyes of the unrighteous it appeared that God did not intervene and that His Son died, but for believers it was at that precise moment that tru….

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they n….

Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in sear….

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery..

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the ….

Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A pu….

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools..

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the….

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes..