Birth: December 17, 1936
I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced ….
We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have….
Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is bein….
An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world..
The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world..
We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile..
The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer..
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith..
Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives..
It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made pe….
The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect.….
Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I ….
There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say so-the disco….
Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms..
From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much hel….
The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross..
Babies cry, make noise, go here and there. But it annoys me when a baby cries in church and there are those who say he needs to go out. The cry of a ….
Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it. Families are the domestic church wh….
You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belon….
My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that free….
The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many reli….