Birth: December 17, 1936
Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind..
I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics..
Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins..
I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or tha….
No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human commun….
Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering..
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry..
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick..
At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in the ….
Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face..
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God..
There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain it because the word….
When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty..
I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican peo….
A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed..
Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, for proselytizing is a caricature of evangelization, but rather evangelizing entails attracting by ….
Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy is….
Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity..
Are we capable of bringing the word of God into the environment in which we live? Do we know how to speak of Christ, of what he represents for us, in….
The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ.
It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness..