God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn’t get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.
We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.
We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.
There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.
The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard by everyone who can still distinguish between good and evil.
Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.
Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.
When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God’s simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you.
To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.
At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!
All it takes is one good person to restore hope.
As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor ; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.
The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.
To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.
May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.
Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.
Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.
Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.
Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.
You may be asking yourselves, ‘Who is this man standing before us?’ i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.