When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off..

Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It is part of his plan; it means ca….

Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even….

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices..

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the da….

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, ….

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up..

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information..

Worshipping the Lord means giving him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing-not only by our words- that he alone….

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!.

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to ….

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have ….

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a cul….

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ..

We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time….

War is not to be waged in the name of God..

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father..

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves..

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourp….

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoti….