Birth: April 16, 1927
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contempor….
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and prev….
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!.
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ….
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world..
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease..
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart..
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..
Holiness never goes out of fashion..
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility….
Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the i….
Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to liv….
Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the ….
Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin agai….
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives..
A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him..
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….
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves..
Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ..
We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new..
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….