The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.
Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.
A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.
There must be a cooperation of all who believe in God, knowing that authentic religiousness – far from placing individuals and peoples in conflict with one another – rather pushes them together to build a world of peace.
Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.
The Rosary is my favorite prayer.
Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and human dignity, for the rights of today’s generations and those to come, prevails.
While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community – individuals, States and international bodies – take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
Prayer finds its source in God’s holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
Another name for peace is development.
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.