Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important...
Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that ’purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.
The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!
The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit: soul, intelligence, will, affections and even the body, because we are united in body and spirit.
Ask Jesus what he wants from you and be brave!
Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation.
Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.
The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts,...
In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.
In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.
Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
We are all called to be friends with Jesus. Don’t be afraid to love the Lord.
Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.
The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.
If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s normal. It’s normal.
It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.
It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.