Birth: April 16, 1927
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth a….
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think..
If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know tha….
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives..
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred,….
It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it..
It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic stru….
All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your fai….
My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our env….
I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Thr….
To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly….
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil..
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and ….
Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature ….
God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice..
Forgiveness is not substitute for justice..
While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charis….
It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the femini….
Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person..
Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is….
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ….