At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!
All it takes is one good person to restore hope.
As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor ; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.
The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.
To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.
May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.
Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.
Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.
Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.
Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.
You may be asking yourselves, ‘Who is this man standing before us?’ i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.
May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.
Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.
We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.
Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.
Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.
There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.