Birth: December 17, 1936
The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world..
I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity..
A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We could never have….
Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord..
It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!.
Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness..
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total c….
Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us..
I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true..
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to unde….
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Sa….
We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure..
I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzing….
Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices..
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the mos….
I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful..
We all have the duty to do good..
To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to e….
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 not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up..
How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives..