Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it’s normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!
How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don’t care; we don’t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death.
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.
Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.
I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.
I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.
Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.
How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.
Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.
We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.
If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.