Birth: April 16, 1927
Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits..
The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people..
The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards hu….
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!.
How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?.
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being i….
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….
Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we g….
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating….
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to ….
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat the temptations of the ….
The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and the wisest ….
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth.
Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith..
We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust..
Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By its nature love is enduring. Again,….
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, f….
The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speak….
The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply of certai….
Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capa….
I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him ….