Birth: December 17, 1936
The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy w….
Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness..
An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral..
And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord..
Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love.
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives..
I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life..
If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal..
I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impet….
When we don't preach the LORD, we preach the Devil, and when we preach worldliness, we preach the Devil.
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives wit….
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that mi….
May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference..
Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths l….
Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us..
When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God..
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction..
Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples..
A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise..
Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization.
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church..