Birth: December 17, 1936
Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love..
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 ….
No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness..
To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone..
If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer ….
When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost..
May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy..
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism..
We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them..
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian..
God never tires of forgiving us..
Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven..
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….
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves..
We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, wh….
It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls towa….
...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and ….
In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a who….
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters..
Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of t….
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher….