Birth: April 16, 1927
What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon,….
Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it in….
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 ….
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in t….
In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the e….
To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the first of these challenges: solidari….
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart..
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to conf….
The more ardent the love for the Eucharist in the hearts of the Christian people, the more clearly will they recognize the goal of all mission: to br….
Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the ans….
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficie….
Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion.
We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new..
At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply expects ….
The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe, with the late Pope….
Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is th….
I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their brothers and sisters a….
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just..
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on..
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and fr….
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace..