Birth: December 17, 1936
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.….
The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman..
Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!.
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner..
I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us..
I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a lit….
Don't let anyone rob you of hope..
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, b….
If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal….
We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do..
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the ….
Patriarch Kirill. I would prefer - because if I say one thing, I have to say another and another and another. I would prefer that what we spoke about….
All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace..
Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord..
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the….
I don't like it when I hear it said: 'but these youth say stupid things!'.
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to ….
God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities..
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty,….
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful..
Become the Word in body as well as spirit..