Occupation: Priest Birth: May 18, 1920 Death: April 2, 2005
And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as ….
My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an indelible youthfulness and beauty that never wa….
We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ag….
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song..
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war..
The greatness of work is inside man..
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live..
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting ….
Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and f….
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable….
Let me go to the house of the Father..
You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving re….
Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right t….
Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign….
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are….
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be gro….
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death..
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself..
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good..
No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he….
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every hu….