Birth: December 17, 1936
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death.
If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort..
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies ….
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….
Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven..
How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a ….
Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not..
Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins..
Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary..
Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invi….
In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor. I emphasize the word: "stop". I'm….
If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why children suffer, why this or that tragedy oc….
God shows up with surprises..
I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity..
May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy..
To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it..
As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together..
Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan..
An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral..
A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future..
Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is….