Birth: December 17, 1936
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money ….
Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live an….
Reject every form of corruption..
Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart..
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (….
Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected..
Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing….
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church, for that matter, ….
You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!.
Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional..
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart..
Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, ….
Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood..
Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are dispos….
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God….
The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ep….
Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the g….
It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, an….
War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love..
Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful..
Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy..