Birth: December 17, 1936
We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to dri….
If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why children suffer, why this or that tragedy oc….
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us..
It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world..
Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia.
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves..
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes ….
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….
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….
I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station..
There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God..
What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not….
Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace..
Let those desert places in our hearts bloom..
Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, th….
A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with C….
I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter..
If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization ….
It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself..
And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?.
It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present..