What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.
The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit.
Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.
Indeed, beauty is one of mankind’s greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.
Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.
Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.
Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor.
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
Joy is the true gift of Christmas...
Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.
The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.
Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.
Forgiveness does not replace justice.
Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one’s own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure...
The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.
Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.