Birth: December 17, 1936
Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!.
Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food - that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while thing….
In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone..
May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis.
I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me..
We are all missionary disciples.
The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society..
Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world..
Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again..
Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destru….
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness..
Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity..
We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth ….
Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation.
How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he ….
Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian.
Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!.
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride..
There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dig….
Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voi….
One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God..