Birth: April 16, 1927
The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasi….
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd..
The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time….
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover….
We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even tim….
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating….
Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all..
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..
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life..
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….
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 ….
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this ….
There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him an….
I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and n….
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the ….
Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!.
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy. ….
The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the g….
Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the ….
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely..
Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough..