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The Gospel Calls Individual Christians To Live Lives Of Honesty, Integrity And Concern For The Common Good.. To Create Circles Of Integrity.., Networks Of Solidarity Which Can Expand To Embrace And Transform Society By Their Prophetic Witness.

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The Gospel Calls Individual Christians To Live Lives Of Honesty, Integrity And Concern For The Common Good.. To Create Circles Of Integrity.., Networks Of Solidarity Which Can Expand To Embrace And Transform Society By Their Prophetic Witness.

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The Person Who Gossips Is A Terrorist Who Drops A Bomb, Destroys, And They Destroy Others.

Advent Is A Journey Towards Bethlehem. May We Let Ourselves Be Drawn By The Light Of God Made Man.

Poverty Is The Center Of The Gospel.

Allow Me To Draw Your Attention To The Value And Beauty Of Marriage. The Complementarity Of Man And Woman, The Vertex Of The Divine Creation, Is Being Questioned By Gender Ideology, In The Name Of A Freer And More Just Society. The Difference Between Man And Woman Is Not Meant To Stand In Opposition, Or To Subordinate, But Is For The Sake Of Communion And Generation, Always 'in The Image And Likeness Of God.'

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!

During Lent, Let Us Find Concrete Ways To Overcome Our Indifference.

The World Makes Us Look Towards Ourselves, Our Possessions, Our Desires.the Gospel Invites Us To Be Open To Others, To Share With The Poor.

10 Days Before The Death Of St. John Paul Ii, In That Via Crucis Of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger Said To The Whole Church That It Needed To Clean Up The Dirt Of The Church.

Unfortunately, What Is Thrown Away Is Not Only Food And Dispensable Objects, But Often Human Beings Themselves, Who Are Discarded As 'unnecessary.' For Example, It Is Frightful Even To Think There Are Children, Victims Of Abortion, Who Will Never See The Light Of Day; Children Being Used As Soldiers, Abused And Killed In Armed Conflicts; And Children Being Bought And Sold In That Terrible Form Of Modern Slavery Which Is Human Trafficking, Which Is A Crime Against Humanity.

Our World Is Facing A Refugee Crisis Of A Magnitude Not Seen Since The Second World War. This Presents Us With Great Challenges And Many Hard Decisions.

The Christian Family Is Missionary: It Announces The Love Of God To The World.

Jesus On The Cross Feels The Whole Weight Of The Evil, And With The Force Of God's Love He Conquers It, He Defeats It With His Resurrection.

Embrace With Tender Affection The Whole Of Humanity, Especially The Poorest, The Weakest, The Least Important.

Take Care Of Brothers And Sisters Who Are Weaker ... The Elderly, The Sick, The Hungry, The Homeless And Strangers, Because We Will Be Judged On This.

We Can Observe The Fourth Commandment By Loving Visits To Our Aging Grandparents

The Annual World Day Of Prayer For The Care Of Creation Will Offer Individual Believers And Communities A Fitting Opportunity To Reaffirm Their Personal Vocation To Be Stewards Of Creation, To Thank God For The Wonderful Handiwork Which He Has Entrusted To Our Care, And To Implore His Help For The Protection Of Creation, As Well As His Pardon For The Sins Committed Against The World In Which We Live.

Dear Brothers And Sisters, Never Resort To War! Never War! Above All, I Think Of All The Children Who Are Robbed Of Their Hope For A Better Life And A Decent Future. Killed Children, Wounded Children, Mutilated Children, Orphans, Children Who Play With Remnants Of War, Instead Of Toys. Children Who Don't Know How To Smile. Please Stop! I Ask You With All My Heart. It's Time To Stop. Stop It Please!

As Always, The Ones Who Aren't Saints Make The Most Noise...a Single Tree Falling Makes A Sound, But A Whole Forest Growing Doesn't.

The Gospel Calls Individual Christians To Live Lives Of Honesty, Integrity And Concern For The Common Good.. To Create Circles Of Integrity.., Networks Of Solidarity Which Can Expand To Embrace And Transform Society By Their Prophetic Witness.

The Popes Have Spoken Of Human Ecology, Closely Linked To Environmental Ecology. We Are Living In A Time Of Crisis: We See This In The Environment, But Above All We See This In Mankind Man Is Not In Charge Today, Money Is In Charge, Money Rules. God Our Father Did Not Give The Task Of Caring For The Earth To Money, But To Us, To Men And Women: We Have This Task! Instead, Men And Women Are Sacrificed To The Idols Of Profit And Consumption: It Is The 'culture Of Waste.'

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.

Avoiding Pregnancy Is Not An Absolute Evil.

Jesus Is More Than A Friend. He Is A Teacher Of Truth And Life Who Shows Us The Way That Leads To Happiness.

Communications Requires Study, Preparation, And A Special Attention To Truth, Goodness And Beauty.

Work Ends Up Dehumanizing People.

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.

All Catholics Must Ask Themselves What They Personally Have Done Lately To Build Up The Holiness Of The Church And Ensure People Feel Welcomed And Loved In It.

If We Act Like Children Of God, Knowing That He Loves Us, Our Lives Will Be Made New, Filled With Serenity And Joy.

If Someone Is Gay And Is Searching For The Lord And Has Good Will, Then Who Am I To Judge Him?... No One Should Marginalize These People For This, They Must Be Integrated Into Society.

The Alliance Of Love Between A Man And A Woman, An Alliance For Life, Cannot Be Improvised, And Is Not Made In A Day.

Being Christian Is Not Just Obeying Orders But Means Being In Christ, Thinking Like Him, Acting Like Him, Loving Like Him; It Means Letting Him Take Possession Of Our Life And Change It, Transform It, And Free It From The Darkness Of Evil And Sin. ... Let Us Show The Joy Of Being Children Of God, The Freedom That Living In Christ Gives Us Which Is True Freedom, The Freedom That Saves Us From The Slavery Of Evil, Of Sin And Of Death!

Jesus’ Cross Shows The Full Force Of Evil, But Also The Full Power Of God’s Mercy.

Inconsistency On The Part Of Pastors And The Faithful Between What They Say And What They Do, Between Word And Manner Of Life, Is Undermining The Church's Credibility.

When We Do Not Profess Jesus Christ, We Profess The Worldliness Of The Devil, A Demonic Worldliness.

The Challenge Of Life Is To Learn How To Love

We Need Courage If We Are To Be Faithful To The Gospel.

Let Us Never Forget This, He Is Pure Mercy, Let Us Go To Jesus!

Where There Is Truth, There Is Also Light, But Don't Confuse Light With The Flash.

Today, Elderly People Are Discarded When, In Reality, They Are The Seat Of Wisdom Of The Society...the Right To Life Means Allowing People To Live And Not Killing, Allowing Them To Grow, To Eat, To Be Educated, To Be Healed, And To Be Permitted To Die With Dignity.

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

In Mission, Also On A Continental Level, It Is Very Important To Reaffirm The Family, Which Remains The Essential Cell Of Society And The Church; Young People, Who Are The Face Of The Church's Future; Women, Who Play A Fundamental Role In Passing On The Faith And Who Are A Daily Source Of Strength In A Society That Carries This Faith Forward And Renews It.

Every Threat To The Family Is A Threat To Society Itself. So Protect Your Families! See In Them Your Country’s Greatest Treasure And Nourish Them Always By Prayer And The Grace Of The Sacraments.

Greatest Treasure

Every Child Who, Rather Than Being Born, Is Condemned Unjustly To Being Aborted, Bears The Face Of Jesus Christ, Bears The Face Of The Lord, Who Even Before He Was Born, And Then Just After Birth, Experienced The World’s Rejection. And Every Elderly Person…even If He Is Ill Or At The End Of His Days, Bears The Face Of Christ. They Cannot Be Discarded, As The ‘culture Of Waste’ Suggests!

Do Not Forget This: The Lord Never Wearies Of Forgiving! We Are The Ones Who Weary Of Asking For Forgiveness.

The Sacraments Are The Manifestation Of The Father’s Tenderness And Love Towards Each Of Us.

How Wonderful It Is To Be Surprised By God’s Call, To Embrace His Word, And To Walk In The Footsteps Of Jesus... Your Life Will Become Richer And More Joyful Each Day!

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.

We Cannot Sleep Peacefully While Babies Are Dying Of Hunger And The Elderly Are Without Medical Assistance

I Believe In The Old Warrior's Credo That "to The Victor Go The Spoils."

Jesuits Make A Vow Of Obedience To The Pope. But If The Pope Is A Jesuit, Perhaps He Has To Make A Vow Of Obedience To The General Of The Jesuits! I Don’t Know How To Resolve This … I Feel A Jesuit In My Spirituality; In The Spirituality Of The Exercises, The Spirituality Deep In My Heart.

The Family Is Threatened By Growing Efforts On The Part Of Some To Redefine The Very Institution Of Marriage, By Relativism, By The Culture Of The Ephemeral, By A Lack Of Openness To Life. These Realities Are Increasingly Under Attack From Powerful Forces, Which Threaten To Disfigure God’s Plan For Creation.

Wretched Are Those Who Are Vindictive And Spiteful.

In A Word: Charity Cannot Be Neutral, Antiseptic, Indifferent, Lukewarm Or Impartial! Charity Is Infectious, It Excites, It Risks And It Engages! For True Charity Is Always Unmerited, Unconditional And Gratuitous!

In A World Like This, Media Can Help Us To Feel Closer To One Another, Creating A Sense Of Unity Of The Human Family Which Can In Turn Inspire Solidarity And Serious Efforts To Ensure A More Dignified Life For All.

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Christians Know How To Face Difficulties, Trials And Defeat With Serenity And Hope In The Lord.

Peacemaking Calls For Courage, Much More So Than Warfare.

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Let's Pray For Whole World That There Be Brotherhood. I Hope This Journey Of The Church We Begin Today Is Fruitful For Evangelization.

Jesus Speaks In The Silence Of The Mystery Of The Eucharist And Reminds Us Each Time That Following Him Means Going Out Of Ourselves And Making Our Lives Not Something We 'possess,' But A Gift To Him And To Others.

Forgiveness, Dialogue, Reconciliation - These Are The Words Of Peace, In Beloved Syria, In The Middle East, In All The World.

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.

Preparation For Marriage Is Very Important. It's Very, Very Important Because I Believe It Is Something That In The Church, In Common Pastoral Ministry, At Least In My Country, In South America, The Church It Has Not Valued Much.

He Who Doesn't Pray To The Lord Prays To The Devil.

You Tell Me: Can You Live Crushed Under The Weight Of The Present? Without A Memory Of The Past And Without The Desire To Look Ahead To The Future By Building Something, A Future, A Family? Can You Go On Like This? This, To Me, Is The Most Urgent Problem That The Church Is Facing.

Not All Muslims Are Violent, Not All Catholics Are Violent. It Is Like A Fruit Salad; There's Everything. There Are Violent Persons Of This Religion.

My Choices, Including Those Related To The Day-to-day Aspects Of Life, Like The Use Of A Modest Car, Are Related To A Spiritual Discernment That Responds To A Need That Arises From Looking At Things, At People And From Reading The Signs Of The Times. Discernment In The Lord Guides Me In My Way Of Governing.

There Is No Such Thing As Low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus Means Swimming Against The Tide, Renouncing Evil And Selfishness

Men And Women Are Sacrificed To The Idols Of Profit And Consumption: It Is The 'culture Of Waste.' If A Computer Breaks It Is A Tragedy, But Poverty, The Needs And Dramas Of So Many People End Up Being Considered Normal. ... When The Stock Market Drops 10 Points In Some Cities, It Constitutes A Tragedy. Someone Who Dies Is Not News, But Lowering Income By 10 Points Is A Tragedy! In This Way People Are Thrown Aside As If They Were Trash.

Europe Has Discarded Its Children. A Bit Triumphantly. I Remember That When I Was Studying In One Country The Clinics That Did Abortions Then Prepared Everything To Send It To Cosmetic Factories. Makeup Made With The Blood Of Innocents. And This Was Something To Brag About, Because It Was Progressive.

In This System, Which Tends To Devour Everything Which Stands In The Way Of Increased Profits, Whatever Is Fragile, Like The Environment, Is Defenseless Before The Interests Of A Deified Market, Which Become The Only Rule.

Even Today, After The Second Failure Of Another World War, Perhaps One Can Speak Of A Third War, One Fought Piecemeal, With Crimes, Massacres, Destruction.

Only Trust In God Can Transform Doubts Into Certainty, Evil Into Good, Night Into Radiant Dawn.

Another Very Interesting Chapter Is The Education Of Children: The Victims Of Problems Of The Family Are The Children. The Children. Even Of Problems That Neither Husband Nor Wife Have A Say In. For Example, The Needs Of A Job. When The Dad Doesn't Have Free Time To Speak To His Children, When The Mother Doesn't Have Time To Speak With Her Children.

Instead Of Seeming To Impose New Obligations, They Should Appear As People Who Wish To Share Their Joy, Who Point To A Horizon Of Beauty And Who Invite Others To A Delicious Banquet. It Is Not By Proselytizing That The Church Grows, But By Attraction.

Our Infinite Sadness Can Only Be Cured By An Infinite Love.

Religious Life Ought To Promote Growth In The Church By Way Of Attraction. The Church Must Be Attractive. Wake Up The World! Be Witnesses Of A Different Way Of Doing Things, Of Acting, Of Living! It Is Possible To Live Differently In This World.

In This Case [the Charlemagne Prize], I Don't Say (i Was) Forced, But Convinced By The Holy And Theological Headstrongness Of Cardinal [walter] Kasper, Because He Was Chosen, Elected By Aachen To Convince Me. And I Said Yes, But In The Vatican. And I Said I Offer It For Europe, As A Co-decoration For Europe, A Prize So That Europe May Do What I Desired At Strasburg; That It May No Longer Be "grandmother Europe" But "mother Europe."

Sometimes We Are Saddened By The Weight Of Our Sins. May We Not Be Discouraged. Christ Has Come To Lift This Burden And Give Us Peace.

I Asked [guadalupe] For The World, For Peace, So Many Things. I Asked Forgiveness, I Asked That The Church Grows Healthy, I Asked For The Mexican People. And Another Thing I Asked A Lot For: That Priests Be True Priests, And Sisters True Sisters, And Bishops True Bishops. As The Lord Wants.

Why Are Deadly Weapons Being Sold To Those Who Plan To Inflict Untold Suffering On Individuals And Society? Sadly, The Answer, As We All Know, Is Simply For Money: Money That Is Drenched In Blood, Often Innocent Blood. In The Face Of This Shameful And Culpable Silence, It Is Our Duty To Confront The Problem And To Stop The Arms Trade.

If Globalization Seeks To Bring All Of Us Together, But To Do So Respecting Each Person, Each Individual Person's Peculiarity, That Globalization Is Good And Makes Us Good And Grow And Leads To Peace.

Dear Young People, You Have Many Plans And Dreams For The Future. But, Is Christ At The Center Of Each Of Your Plans And Dreams?

When The Lord Wants To Give Us A Mission, Wants To Give Us A Task, He Prepares Us. He Prepares Us To Do It Well...what Is Important Is The Whole Journey By Which We Arrive At The Mission The Lord Entrusts To Us...when The Lord Gives A Mission, He Always Has Us Enter Into A Process, A Process Of Purification, A Process Of Discernment, A Process Of Obedience, A Process Of Prayer.

Without Prolonged Moments Of Adoration, Of Prayerful Encounter With The Word, Of Sincere Conversation With The Lord, Our Work Easily Becomes Meaningless; We Lose Energy As A Result Of Weariness And Difficulties, And Our Fervor Dies Out. The Church Urgently Needs The Deep Breath Of Prayer, And To My Great Joy Groups Devoted To Prayer And Intercession, The Prayerful Reading Of God's Word And The Perpetual Adoration Of The Eucharist Are Growing At Every Level Of Ecclesial Life.

We Have, In A Sense, Lorded It Over Nature, Over Sister Earth, Over Mother Earth, I Think Man Has Gone Too Far.

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

We Could Also Say That There Is Only One Real Kind Of Poverty: Not Living As Children Of God And Brothers And Sisters Of Christ.

If We Wish To Follow Christ Closely, We Cannot Choose An Easy, Quiet Life. It Will Be A Demanding Life, But Full Of Joy.

How Many People Worldwide Are Victims Of This Type Of Slavery, In Which The Person Is At The Service Of His Or Her Work, While Work Should Offer A Service To People So They May Have Dignity. I Ask My Brothers And Sisters In Faith And All Men And Women Of Good Will For A Decisive Choice To Combat Trafficking In Persons, Which Includes "slave Labor."

If The Seminary Is Too Large, It Ought To Be Divided Into Smaller Communities With Formators Who Are Equipped Really To Accompany Those In Their Charge. Dialogue Must Be Serious, Without Fear, Sincere. It Is Important To Recall That The Language Of Young People In Formation Today Is Different From That In The Past: We Are Living Through An Epochal Change. Formation Is A Work Of Art, Not A Police Action. We Must Form Their Hearts. Otherwise We Are Creating Little Monsters. And Then These Little Monsters Mold The People Of God. This Really Gives Me Goose Bumps.

Amid So Many Problems, Even Grave, May We Not Lose Our Hope In The Infinite Mercy Of God.

The Question Of Truth Is Really A Question Of Memory, Deep Memory, For It Deals With Something Prior To Ourselves And Can Succeed In Uniting Us In A Way That Transcends Our Petty And Limited Individual Consciousness. It Is A Question About The Origin Of All That Is, In Whose Light We Can Glimpse The Goal And Thus The Meaning Of Our Common Path.

I Like To Say That Women Are Those Who Form Life In Their Wombs - And This Is A Comparison I Make - They Have This Charism Of Giving You Things You Can Build With.

It Is Necessary To Reaffirm Our Solid Opposition To Any Direct Offense Against Life, Especially When Innocent And Defenseless, And The Unborn Child In Its Mother's Womb Is The Quintessence Of Innocence. Let Us Remember The Words Of Vatican Council Ii: 'therefore From The Moment Of Its Conception Life Must Be Guarded With The Greatest Care While Abortion And Infanticide Are Unspeakable Crimes.'

Human Beings Are Themselves Considered Consumer Goods To Be Used And Then Discarded. We Have Created A 'disposable' Culture Which Is Now Spreading. It Is No Longer Simply About Exploitation And Oppression, But Something New.

Money Must Serve, Not Rule! The Pope Loves Everyone, Rich And Poor Alike, But He Is Obliged In The Name Of Christ To Remind All That The Rich Must Help, Respect And Promote The Poor. I Exhort You To Generous Solidarity And A Return Of Economics And Finance To An Ethical Approach Which Favours Human Beings.

Workers Should Have Sundays Off Because Sunday Is For The Family. Calling For Sundays To Be A Holiday.

An Evangelizer Must Never Look Like Someone Who Has Just Come Back From A Funeral.

Imagine, To Become A Priest There Are Eight Years Of Study And Preparation, And Then If After A While You Can't Do It, You Can Ask For A Dispensation, You Leave, And Everything Is Ok.

The Imposition Of Anomalous Models And Lifestyles Are Alien To People's Identity And, In The End, Are Irresponsible.

I Distrust A Charity That Costs Nothing And Does Not Hurt.

We Are All Sinners. But God Heals Us With An Abundance Of Grace, Mercy And Tenderness

When Families Bring Children Into The World, Train Them In Faith And Sound Values, And Teach Them To Contribute To Society, They Become A Blessing In Our World.

The Perfect Family Doesn't Exist, Nor Is There A Perfect Husband Or A Perfect Wife, And Let's Not Talk About The Perfect Mother-in-law! It's Just Us Sinners. A Healthy Family Life Requires Frequent Use Of Three Phrases: "may I? Thank You, And I'm Sorry" And "never, Never, Never End The Day Without Making Peace."

Giving Primacy To God Means Having The Courage To Say ‘no’ To Evil, ‘no’ To Violence, ‘no’ To Oppression, To Live A Life In Service Of Others And Which Fosters Lawfulness And The Common Good. When A Person Discovers God, The True Treasure, He Abandons A Selfish Lifestyle And Seeks To Share With Others The Charity Which Comes From God. He Who Becomes A Friend Of God, Loves His Brothers And Sisters, Commits Himself To Safeguarding Their Life And Their Health, And Also To Respecting The Environment And Nature.

Holy Week Is A Privileged Time When We Are Called To Draw Near To Jesus: Friendship With Him Is Shown In Times Of Difficulty.

Let Christ Turn Your Natural Optimism Into Christian Hope, Your Energy Into Moral Virtue, Your Good Will Into Genuine Self-sacrificin G Love! This Is The Path You Are Called To Take. This Is The Path To Overcoming All That Threatens Hope, Virtue And Love In Your Lives And In Your Culture. In This Way Your Youth Will Be A Gift To Jesus And To The World.

I Want The Church To Go Out Onto The Streets, I Want Us To Resist Everything Worldly, Everything Static, Everything Comfortable...eve Rything That Might Make Us Closed In On Ourselves.

Business Is A Noble Vocation, Directed To Producing Wealth And Improving The World. It Can Be A Fruitful Source Of Prosperity For The Area In Which It Operates, Especially If It Sees The Creation Of Jobs As An Essential Part Of Its Service To The Common Good. This Common Good Also Includes The Earth... The Environmental Challenge We Are Undergoing, And Its Human Roots, Concern And Affect Us All.

Let Us Pray To The Lord And Ask Him To Protect The Family In The Crisis With Which The Devil Wants To Destroy It. Families Are The Domestic Church Where Jesus Grows In The Love Of A Married Couple, In The Lives Of Their Children.

All Revealed Truths Derive From The Same Divine Source And Are To Be Believed With The Same Faith, Yet Some Of Them Are More Important For Giving Direct Expression To The Heart Of The Gospel. In This Basic Core, What Shines Forth Is The Beauty Of The Saving Love Of God Made Manifest In Jesus Christ Who Died And Rose From The Dead.

As Christians, Our Duty Is To Pray For Them And Ask The Lord To Give Them The Grace Of Penance, So That They Don't Die With A Corrupt Heart, Because Otherwise The Dogs Of Hell Will Take Their Blood.

As The Son Of An Immigrant Family, I Am Happy To Be A Guest In U.s, Which Was Largely Built By Such Families.

Agape, The Love Of Each One Of Us For The Other, From The Closest To The Furthest, Is In Fact The Only Way That Jesus Has Given Us To Find The Way Of Salvation And Of The Beatitudes.

Do Not Be Afraid To Dream Great Things!

If We Start Without Confidence, We Have Already Lost Half The Battle And We Bury Our Talents.

We Cannot Be Christians Part-time. If Christ Is At The Center Of Our Lives, He Is Present In All That We Do.

Sin Is Not A Stain That I Must Wash Out. What I Need To Do Is Ask Forgiveness And Reconcile Myself, Not Go To The Drycleaners. I Have To Go Encounter Jesus Who Gave His Life For Me.

Lord, Teach Us To Step Outside Ourselves. Teach Us To Go Out Into The Streets And Manifest Your Love.

I Would Love To Be A Well-educated Black, Because I Believe They Do Have An Actual Advantage.

We Have To State, Without Mincing Words, That There Is An Inseparable Bond Between Our Faith And The Poor. May We Never Abandon Them.

We Have Observed That, In Society And The World In Which We Live, Selfishness Has Increased More Than Love For Others, And That Men Of Good Will Must Work, Each With His Own Strengths And Expertise, To Ensure That Love For Others Increases Until It Is Equal And Possibly Exceeds Love For Oneself.

Abortion Is Not The Lesser Of Two Evils. It Is A Crime. It Is To Throw Someone Out In Order To Save Another. That's What The Mafia Does.

If One Has The Answers To All The Questions - That Is The Proof That God Is Not With Him. It Means That He Is A False Prophet Using Religion For Himself. The Great Leaders Of The People Of God, Like Moses, Have Always Left Room For Doubt. You Must Leave Room For The Lord, Not For Our Certainties; We Must Be Humble.

All Political Activity Must Serve And Promote The Good Of The Human Person And Be Based On Respect For His Or Her Dignity.

We Ought Never To Lose Hope. God Overwhelms Us With His Grace, If We Keep Asking.

I Sincerely Hope I Can Contribute To The Progress There Has Been In Relations Between Jews And Catholics Since The Second Vatican Council In A Spirit Of Renewed Collaboration.

A Population That Does Not Take Care Of The Elderly And Of Children And The Young Has No Future, Because It Abuses Both Its Memory And Its Promise.

I Feel So Low That Instead Of Picking Myself Up I Have To Cut Others Down.

I Have Heard It Said That Families With Many Children And High Birth Rates Are Among The Cause Of Poverty. It Seems To Me A Simplistic Opinion. I Can Say That The Main Cause Of Poverty Is An Economic System That Has Removed The Person From The Center.

We Are All Sinners. We Are Called To A Conversion Of Heart

Let Us Learn From Christ How To Pray, To Forgive, To Sow Peace, And To Be Near Those In Need.

The Lord Is Always There Waiting To Give Us His Love: It Is An Amazing Thing, One Which Never Ceases To Surprise Us!

Our Prayer Cannot Be Reduced To An Hour On Sundays. It Is Important To Have A Daily Relationship With The Lord.

Proselytism Is Solemn Nonsense, It Makes No Sense. We Need To Get To Know Each Other, Listen To Each Other And Improve Our Knowledge Of The World Around Us. Sometimes After A Meeting I Want To Arrange Another One Because New Ideas Are Born And I Discover New Needs. This Is Important: To Get To Know People, Listen, Expand The Circle Of Ideas. The World Is Crisscrossed By Roads That Come Closer Together And Move Apart, But The Important Thing Is That They Lead Towards The Good.

Everyone Is Called, Everyone Is Sent Out… The Call Of God Can Reach Us On The Assembly Line And In The Office, In The Supermarket And In The Stairwell, I.e., In The Places Of Everyday Life.

When A Child Has A Bad Dream And Wakes Up Crying, Dad Goes And Says, 'don't Be Afraid, Don't Be Scared. I'm Here.' The Lord Speaks This Way, Too... Usually, Christmas Seems Like A Very Noisy Feast, But We Can Use A Bit Of Silence To Hear These Words Of Love, Closeness And Tenderness.

Politics Is The Most Important Of The Civil Activities And Has Its Own Field Of Action, Which Is Not That Of Religion.

The Joy Of The Gospel Fills The Hearts And Lives Of All Who Encounter Jesus.

Take Good Care Of Creation. St. Francis Wanted That. People Occasionally Forgive, But Nature Never Does. If We Don't Take Care Of The Environment, There's No Way Of Getting Around It.

We Cannot Live As Christians Separate From The Rock Who Is Christ. He Gives Us Strength And Stability, But Also Joy And Serenity.

In The Roughest Moments, Remember: God Is Our Father; God Does Not Abandon His Children.

And Does Not True Freedom Mean Choosing Ways In This World That Lead To The Good Of All And Are Guided By Love?

Go, Do Not Be Afraid And Serve

We Cannot Be Tepid Disciples. The Church Needs Our Courage In Order To Give Witness To Truth.

We Must Restore Hope To Young People, Help The Old, Be Open To The Future, Spread Love. Be Poor Among The Poor. We Need To Include The Excluded And Preach Peace.

When We Talk About The Environment, About Creation, My Thoughts Turn To The First Pages Of The Bible, The Book Of Genesis, Which States That God Placed Man And Woman On Earth To Cultivate And Care For It. And The Question Comes To My Mind: What Does Cultivating And Caring For The Earth Mean? Are We Truly Cultivating And Caring For Creation? Or Are We Exploiting And Neglecting It?

When A Family Loses Its Ability To Dream, Children Don't Grow, Love Doesn't Grow And Life Loses Strength, Eventually It Shuts Off.

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.

If You Withdraw Into Yourself, You Run The Risk Of Becoming Egocentric. And Stagnant Water Becomes Putrid.

Trust In The Power Of Christ’s Cross! Receive His Reconciling Grace And Share It!

We All Have The Duty To Do Good.

Once Man Has Lost The Fundamental Orientation Which Unifies His Existence, He Breaks Down Into The Multiplicity Of His Desires; In Refusing To Await The Time Of Promise, His Life-story Disintegrates Into A Myriad Of Unconnected Instants.

The Laity Are Called To Become A Leaven Of Christian Living Within Society.

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Dear Young Friends, Learn To Pray Every Day: This Is The Way To Know Jesus And Invite Him Into Your Lives.

But You Too, Help One Another: Help One Another Always. One Another. In This Way, By Helping One Another, We Will Do Some Good.

We Don't Need Youth Museums But We Do Need Holy Young People.

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

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.

Religion Has The Right To Express Its Opinion In The Service Of The People, But God In Creation Has Set Us Free: It Is Not Possible To Interfere Spiritually In The Life Of A Person.

Those Who Today Always Look For Disciplinarian Solutions, Those Who Long For An Exaggerated Doctrinal 'security,' Those Who Stubbornly Try To Recover A Past That No Longer Exists - They Have A Static And Inward-directed View Of Things. In This Way, Faith Becomes An Ideology Among Other Ideologies.

True Peace Is Not A Balance Of Opposing Forces, And It Is Not ‘a Lovely Façade’ Simply Covering Conflicts And Divisions. Rather, Peace Calls For Daily Commitment -- It's Homemade -- Starting From God's Gift, From The Grace Which He Has Given Us In Jesus Christ.

I Think Both Freedom Of Religion And Freedom Of Expression Are Both Fundamental Human Rights, Everyone Has Not Only The Freedom And The Right But The Obligation To Say What Pope Francis Thinks For The Common Good... We Have The Right To Have This Freedom Openly Without Offending.

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

I Prefer A Church Which Is Bruised, Hurting And Dirty Because It Has Been Out On The Streets, Rather Than A Church Which Is Unhealthy From Being Confined And From Clinging To Its Own Security.

Lithuanian Bishops Have Been Heroic!

It Also Happens To Me That When I Meet A Clericalist, I Suddenly Become Anti-clerical. Clericalism Should Not Have Anything To Do With Christianity. St. Paul, Who Was The First To Speak To The Gentiles, The Pagans, To Believers In Other Religions, Was The First To Teach Us That.

We Must Avoid The Spiritual Disease Of The Church That Can Become Self-referential: When This Happens, The Church Itself Becomes Sick. It’s True That Accidents Can Happen When You Go Out Into The Street, As Can Happen To Any Man Or Woman. But If The Church Remains Closed Onto Itself, Self-referential, It Grows Old. Between A Church That Goes Into The Street And Gets Into An Accident And A Church That Is Sick With Self-referentiality, I Have No Doubts In Preferring The First.

For This The Gospel Offers Us A Serene Way Forward: Using The Three Languages Of The Mind, Heart And Hands - And To Use Them In Harmony. What You Think, You Must Feel And Put Into Effect. Your Information Comes Down To Your Heart And You Put It Into Practice. Harmoniously. What You Think, You Feel, And You Do. Feel What You Think And Feel What You Do. Do What You Think And What You Feel. The Three Languagesto Think. To Feel. To Do. And All In Harmony.

[t]he "home" Represents The Most Precious Human Treasures, That Of Encounter, That Of Relations Among People, Different In Age, Culture And History, But Who Live Together And Together Help One Another To Grow. For This Reason, The "home" Is A Crucial Place In Life, Where Life Grows And Can Be Fulfilled, Because It Is A Place In Which Every Person Learns To Receive Love And To Give Love.

Despite The Slowness, The Infidelity, The Errors And Sins It Committed And Might Still Commit Against Its Members, The Church, Trust Me, Has No Other Meaning And Goal But To Live And Witness Jesus.

While All Too Many People Live In Dire Poverty, Others Are Caught Up In Materialism And Lifestyles Which Are Destructive Of Family Life And The Most Basic Demands Of Christian Morality.

From The Way Children Are Treated Society Can Be Judged.

I Extend My Appreciation To The Associations, Movements And All Those Who Defend Human Life.

Vanity, Showing Off, Is An Attitude That Reduces Spirituality To A Worldly Thing, Which Is The Worst Sin That Could Be Committed In The Church.

There Is An Ideological Colonization We Have To Be Careful Of That Tries To Destroy The Family.

Today Children Are Disposed Of Because There Is No Food Or Because They Are Killed Before Being Born – Children Are Discarded. The Elderly Are Disposed Of, Well, Because They Are Useless, They Do Not Produce, Neither Children Nor The Elderly Produce; Then, With More Or Less Sophisticated Systems They Are Slowly Abandoned And Now, As In This Crisis It Is Necessary To Recover Some Equilibrium, We Are Witnessing A Third Very Painful Discarding –the Discarding Of Young People. Millions Of Young People… Are Discarded From Work, Are Unemployed.

Fasting Makes Sense If It Really Chips Away At Our Security And, As A Consequence, Benefits Someone Else, If It Helps Us Cultivate The Style Of The Good Samaritan, Who Bent Down To His Brother In Need And Took Care Of Him.

A Good Catholic Meddles In Politics, Offering The Best Of Himself, So That Those Who Govern Can Govern. But What Is The Best That We Can Offer To Those Who Govern? Prayer!

Obeying God Is Listening To God, Having An Open Heart To Follow The Path That God Points Out To Us.

Our Mission As Christians Is To Conform Ourselves Evermore To Jesus As The Model Of Our Lives.

Wars Are Always Madness: All Is Lost In War, All Is To Be Gained In Peace.

We Learn Many Virtues In Our Christian Families. Above All, We Learn To Love, Asking Nothing In Return.

[mexican People] Have A Culture, A Culture That Goes Back Millennia.

If A Company Can Declare Bankruptcy, Why Can't A Country Do So?

Art In The Church Fundamentally Exists For Evangelization

Gratitude Is A Flower That Blooms In Noble Souls.

While New Rights Are Attributed To Or Indeed Almost Presumed By The Individual, Life Is Not Always Protected As The Primary Value And The Primordial Right Of Every Human Being. The Ultimate Aim Of Medicine Remains The Defence And Promotion Of Life.

Let Us Pray For All Good And Faithful Priests Who Dedicate Themselves To Their People With Generosity And Unknown Sacrifices.

I'm Overwhelmed By Shame That The People Who Had The Responsibility To Take Care Of The Tender Ones Violated That Trust And Caused Them Great Pain.

The Key That Opens The Door To The Faith Is Prayer.

Today, In Mexico, They Speak 65 Languages, Counting The Indigenous Languages, 65. It Is A People Of Great Faith. They Have Also Suffered Religious Persecution.

It Is A Mortal Sin To Discard The Elderly.

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.

In My Own Experience, Including When I Ask For Advice, I Would Ask A Collaborator, A Friend, I Also Like To Hear The Opinion Of A Woman Because They Have Such Wealth. They Look At Things In A Different Way.

The First Setting In Which Faith Enlightens The Human City Is The Family.

There Is No Cross, Big Or Small, In Our Life Which The Lord Does Not Share With Us.

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

Dear Young People, Always Be Missionaries Of The Gospel, Every Day And In Every Place.

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