Birth: December 17, 1936
God always has patience..
Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people..
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by….
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery..
Do not be afraid of Confession! One who is in line to confess himself feels all these things - even shame - but then, when he finishes confessing, he….
A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian.
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned i….
The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes..
I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us..
Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his o….
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to se….
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay p….
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters..
Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. To those who suffe….
The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity.., networ….
Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!.
So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be transformed by him? Do I let the L….
Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. H….
Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil..
Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion..
The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace..