Birth: December 17, 1936
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church sta….
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity..
How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!.
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!.
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' F….
Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day..
I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world, and I a….
How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!.
We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy..
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed..
I pray the breviary every morning. I like to pray with the psalms. Then, later, I celebrate Mass. I pray the Rosary. What I really prefer is adoratio….
The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel..
When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social a….
Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to grow or it lesse….
[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He s….
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly h….
In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg….
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith..
It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car..
Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!.
Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them..