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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.

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We Now Live In A Culture Of The Temporary, In Which More And More People Are Simply Giving Up On Marriage As A Public Commitment.

So Many Of You Have Lost Everything. I Do Not Know What To Tell You. But Surely He Knows What To Tell You! So Many Of You Have Lost Members Of Your Family. I Can Only Be Silent; I Accompany You Silently, With My Heart...

Christian Witness Is Concrete: Words Without Actions Are Empty.

There Is The Tendency To Place Ourselves And Our Ambitions At The Center Of Our Lives. This Is Very Human, But It Is Not Christian.

In Imitation Of Our Master, We Christians Are Called To Confront The Poverty Of Our Brothers And Sisters, To Touch It, To Make It Our Own And To Take Practical Steps To Alleviate It.

Today, The News Is Scandals, That Is News, But The Many Children Who Don’t Have Food - That’s Not News. This Is Grave. We Can’t Rest Easy While Things Are This Way.

Your Sins Are Great? Just Tell The Lord: Forgive Me, Help Me To Get Up Again, Change My Heart!

I Would Like Especially To Mention You, The Women, Wives And Mothers Of Paraguay, Who At Great Cost And Sacrifice Were Able To Lift Up A Country Defeated, Devastated And Laid Low By An Abominable War. God Bless Your Perseverance, God Bless And Encourage Your Faith, God Bless The Women Of Paraguay, The Most Glorious Women Of America.

I Have Come That They May Have Life And Have It In Abundance, Says Jesus. This Is Where True Wealth Is Found, Not In Material Things!

How Beautiful It Is To See That Young People Are 'street Preachers,' Joyfully Bringing Jesus To Every Street, Every Town Square And Every Corner Of The Earth!

May No One Use Religion As A Pretext For Actions Against Human Dignity And Against The Fundamental Rights Of Every Man And Woman.

The Pope Doesn't Get Mixed Up In Italian Politics.

Not Only Would I Say That The Family Is Important For The Evangelization Of The New World. The Family Is Important, And It Is Necessary For The Survival Of Humanity. Without The Family, The Cultural Survival Of The Human Race Would Be At Risk. The Family, Whether We Like It Or Not, Is The Foundation.

When Money, Instead Of Man, Is At The Center Of The System, When Money Becomes An Idol, Men And Women Are Reduced To Simple Instruments Of A Social And Economic System, Which Is Characterized, Better Yet Dominated, By Profound Inequalities. So We Discard Whatever Is Not Useful To This Logic; It Is This Attitude That Discards Children And Older People, And Is Now Affecting The Young.

I Ask You To Ensure That Humanity Is Served By Wealth, And Not Ruled By It.

Small Yet Strong In The Love Of God, Like Saint Francis Of Assisi, All Of Us, As Christians, Are Called To Watch Over And Protect The Fragile World In Which We Live, And All Its Peoples.

Avoiding Pregnancy Is Not An Absolute Evil. In Certain Cases, As In This One, Or In The One I Mentioned Of Blessed Paul Vi, It Was Clear.

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.

Even Today We Raise Our Hand Against Our Brother... We Have Perfected Our Weapons, Our Conscience Has Fallen Asleep, And We Have Sharpened Our Ideas To Justify Ourselves As If It Were Normal We Continue To Sow Destruction, Pain, Death. Violence And War Lead Only To Death.

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