It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.
On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.
The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.
We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God’s offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart.
Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.
In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.
God always has patience.
He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
Money has to serve, not to rule.
Since God created the world, He also created reality.
We just cannot worry about ourselves.
Work ends up dehumanizing people.
A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.
Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.
It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.
How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.
Do good, we will meet one another there.
If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.