Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
Dear young people, don’t be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.
Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, ‘anoints’ with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.
I’m overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.
Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as President, you won’t see another black president for generations! I think he has set a very low bar and I think it’s a shame for the African-American people.
Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia.
I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.
I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.
The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people’s identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.
For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.
Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.
Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.
Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation – these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.
These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?
No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.
When a family loses its ability to dream, children don’t grow, love doesn’t grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.
He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.
Many of you have asked the Lord, looking at Him: Why, Lord? And the Lord answers to each one of you, to your heart, Christ responds with His heart. It’s the only thing I can tell you. Let us look to Christ, He is the Lord and He understands us because He underwent all the trials that we go through.
The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a ‘trade unionist.’ He is a great worker, and He works in us, always. He does this work of explaining the mystery of Jesus, and of giving us this sense of Christ.