All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it repr….

Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nat….

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelop….

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create..

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "externa….

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being..

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly..

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times..

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises to….

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved..

Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may b….

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom..

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace..

The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in an….

The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so t….

Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on….

To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary..

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way tha….

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence ….

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world.

Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God..