Birth: April 16, 1927
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. ….
It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake..
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties..
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church..
Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough..
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..
You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the ….
The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently ….
The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is for the Lord, ….
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic..
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of al….
There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the directio….
Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world..
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics..
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair..
If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good..
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows ….
The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by Christ who e….
Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are….
Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in thei….
Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things….