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At This Time Of Crisis We Cannot Be Concerned Solely With Ourselves, Withdrawing Into Loneliness, Discouragement And A Sense Of Powerlessness In The Face Of Problems. Please Do Not Withdraw Into Yourselves! This Is A Danger: We Shut Ourselves Up In The Parish, With Our Friends, Within The Movement, With The Like-minded... But Do You Know What Happens? When The Church Becomes Closed, She Becomes An Ailing Church, She Falls Ill! That Is A Danger. . . .a Church Closed In On Herself Is The Same, A Sick Church.

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At This Time Of Crisis We Cannot Be Concerned Solely With Ourselves, Withdrawing Into Loneliness, Discouragement And A Sense Of Powerlessness In The Face Of Problems. Please Do Not Withdraw Into Yourselves! This Is A Danger: We Shut Ourselves Up In The Parish, With Our Friends, Within The Movement, With The Like-minded... But Do You Know What Happens? When The Church Becomes Closed, She Becomes An Ailing Church, She Falls Ill! That Is A Danger. . . .a Church Closed In On Herself Is The Same, A Sick Church.

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Above All, You Ask If The God Of Christians Forgives Those Who Do Not Believe And Who Do Not Seek Faith. Given The Premise, And This Is Fundamental, That The Mercy Of God Is Limitless For Those Who Turn To Him With A Sincere And Contrite Heart, The Issue For The Unbeliever Lies In Obeying His Or Her Conscience.

During My Visit To The Philippines, I Wanted In A Particular Way To Meet With Young People, To Listen To You And To Talk To You. I Want To Express The Love And The Hopes Of The Church For You. And I Want To Encourage You As Christian Citizens Of This Country To Offer Yourselves Passionately And Honestly To The Great Work Of Renewing Your Society And Helping To Build A Better World.

There Is A Danger That Threatens Everyone In The Church, All Of Us. The Danger Of Worldliness. It Leads Us To Vanity, Arrogance And Pride.

The Church Is The Home That Accepts Everyone And Refuses No One ... The Greater The Sin, The Greater The Love That The Church Should Show Towards Those Who Convert.

Around Us There Is The Presence Of Evil. The Devil Is At Work. But In A Loud Voice I Say: God Is Stronger.

Be Missionaries Of God's Tenderness!

The Saints Were Not Superhuman. They Were People Who Loved God In Their Hearts, And Who Shared This Joy With Others.

Do Not Be Content To Live A Mediocre Christian Life: Walk With Determination Along The Path Of Holiness.

Forgiveness Is Not A Result Of Our Efforts, But Is A Gift. It Is A Gift Of The Holy Spirit Who Showers Us With Mercy And Grace That Pours Forth Unceasingly From The Open Heart Of Christ Crucified And Risen.

A Christian Is Never Bored Or Sad. Rather, The One Who Loves Christ Is Full Of Joy And Radiates Joy.

Having Faith Does Not Mean Having No Difficulties, But Having The Strength To Face Them, Knowing We Are Not Alone.

Life Is A Precious Gift, But We Realize This Only When We Give It To Others.

Each Encounter With Jesus Fills Us With Joy, With That Deep Joy Which Only God Can Give.

When We Give Help To The Poor, We Are Not Doing The Work Of Aid Agencies 'in A Christian Way'. Those Are Good, It Is A Decent Thing To Do - Aid Work Is Good And Quite Human - But It Is Not Christian Poverty, Which St. Paul Desires Of Us And Preaches To Us. Christian Poverty Is That I Give Of My Own, And Not Of That Which Is Left Over - I Give Even That, Which I Need For Myself, To The Poor Person, Because I Know That He Enriches Me. Why Does The Poor Person Enrich Me? Because Jesus Himself Told Us That He Is In The Poor Person.

I Want To See The Church Get Closer To The People. I Want To Get Rid Of Clericalism, The Mundane, This Closing Ourselves Off Within Ourselves, In Our Parishes, Schools Or Structures. Because These Need To Get Out!

In This Year Of Faith, We Pray To The Lord That The Church May Always Be A True Family That Brings God’s Love To Everyone.

We Ask The Risen Jesus, Who Turns Death Into Life, To Change Hatred Into Love, Vengeance Into Forgiveness, War Into Peace. Yes, Christ Is Our Peace, And Through Him To Implore Peace For All The World.

Gossip Can Also Kill, Because It Kills The Reputation Of The Person! It Is So Terrible To Gossip! At First It May Seem Like A Nice Thing, Even Amusing, Like Enjoying A Candy. But In The End, It Fills The Heart With Bitterness, And Even Poisons Us.

Let Us Protect With Love All That God Has Given Us!

The Church Is A Mother, Not An Entrepreneur.

How Many Solutions Are Found To Family Problems If We Take Time To Reflect? If We Think Of A Husband Or Wife And We Dream About Their Good Qualities That They Have? Don’t Ever Lose The Illusion Of When You Were Boyfriend And Girlfriend!

Yet Only When We Come To Understand, In The Light Of The Cross, The Evil We Are Capable Of, And Have Even Been A Part Of, Can We Experience True Remorse And True Repentance.

I Don't Know How Things Stand In The Thinking Of The Italian Parliament. The Pope Doesn't Get Mixed Up In Italian Politics.

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.

The Scourge Of Drug Trafficking, That Favors Violence And Sows The Seeds Of Suffering And Death, Requires Of Society As A Whole An Act Of Courage.

Suffering And Death

Right Now, We Don't Have A Very Good Relation With Creation.

The Obsession With Economic Profit And Technical Efficiency Puts The Human Rhythms Of Life At Risk.

The Moral Problem Of Abortion Is Of A Pre Religious Nature Because The Genetic Code Is Written In A Person At The Moment Of Conception. A Human Being Is There. I Separate The Topic Of Abortion From Any Specifically Religious Notions. It Is A Scientific Problem. Not To Allow The Further Development Of A Being Which Already Has All The Genetic Code Of A Human Being Is Not Ethical. The Right To Life Is The First Among Human Rights. To Abort A Child Is To Kill Someone Who Cannot Defend Himself.

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