Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.
If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about ‘me’ and my own comfort.
People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society.
The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.
I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.
This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
Let no one consider themselves to be the ‘armour’ of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!
If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.
Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.
Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!
Fathers should speak with their children.
We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.
Violence and war lead only to death...
I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That’s the message of the Transfiguration.
Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.
We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn’t matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn’t be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.
I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: it is the cry for peace!
Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.
Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that’s become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society.