The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.
May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth.
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.
We all have the duty to do good.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.
I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished!
Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!
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.