Birth: April 16, 1927
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pr….
Rediscover the joy of believing..
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesu….
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics..
We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In him the new human existenc….
I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge, and th….
...The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful ma….
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just..
I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious..
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways ….
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God s….
The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!.
Listen to the voice of the earth..
If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness..
The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, ….
Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility..
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated f….
Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does ….
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….
In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, ….
Do not be afraid to say “yes” to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will....