This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.
May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.
Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.
We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.
Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.
Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.
The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples – they are not the same, today’s culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.
There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.
The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.
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.
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.