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We Are In Front Of A Global Scandal Of Around One Billion - One Billion People Who Still Suffer From Hunger Today. We Cannot Look The Other Way And Pretend This Does Not Exist. The Food Available In The World Is Enough To Feed Everyone.

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We Are In Front

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We Are In Front Of A Global Scandal Of Around One Billion - One Billion People Who Still Suffer From Hunger Today. We Cannot Look The Other Way And Pretend This Does Not Exist. The Food Available In The World Is Enough To Feed Everyone.

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In The Face Of So Many Wounds That Hurt Us And Could Lead To A Hardness Of Heart, We Are Called To Dive Into The Sea Of Prayer, Which Is The Sea Of The Boundless Love Of God, In Order To Experience His Tenderness

No Elderly Person Should Be Like An “exile” In Our Families. The Elderly Are A Treasure For Our Society.

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.

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

I Cannot Live Without People. I Need To Live My Life With Others.

If We Live According To The Law "an Eye For An Eye...," We Will Never Escape From The Spiral Of Evil.

Creation Is Not A Property, Which We Can Rule Over At Will; Or, Even Less, Is The Property Of Only A Few: Creation Is A Gift, It Is A Wonderful Gift That God Has Given Us, So That We Care For It And We Use It For The Benefit Of All, Always With Great Respect And Gratitude.

Avoiding Pregnancy Is Not An Absolute Evil.

All It Takes Is One Good Person To Restore Hope.

Christianity Spreads Through The Joy Of Disciples Who Know That They Are Loved And Saved.

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.

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.

Today, There Are Those Who Say That Marriage Is Out Of Fashion... They Say That It Is Not Worth Making A Life-long Commitment, Making A Definitive Decision, ‘for Ever’, Because We Do Not Know What Tomorrow Will Bring. I Ask You, Instead, To Be Revolutionaries, I Ask You To Swim Against The Tide; Yes, I Am Asking You To Rebel Against This Culture That Sees Everything As Temporary And That Ultimately Believes You Are Incapable Of Responsibility, That Believes You Are Incapable Of True Love.

Dear Young People, Do Not Be Afraid Of Making Decisive Choices In Life. Have Faith; The Lord Will Not Abandon You!

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

We Need To Be Creative With Young People. If They Have No Opportunities, They Will Get Into Drugs And Be Vulnerable To Suicide.

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.

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.

Vocations Are Born In Prayer And From Prayer; And Only In Prayer Can They Persevere And Bear Fruit.

We Must Not Be Afraid Of Solidarity; Rather Let Us Make All We Have And Are Available To God.

We Must Not Believe The Evil One When He Tells Us That There Is Nothing We Can Do In The Face Of Violence, Injustice And Sin.

...men And Women Are Sacrificed To The Idols Of Profit And Consumption: It Is The "culture Of Waste." If You Break A Computer It Is A Tragedy, But Poverty, The Needs, The Dramas Of So Many People End Up Becoming The Norm.

To Love God And Neighbor Is Not Something Abstract, But Profoundly Concrete: It Means Seeing In Every Person And Face Of The Lord To Be Served, To Serve Him Concretely. And You Are, Dear Brothers And Sisters, In The Face Of Jesus.

Life Is A Journey. When We Stop, Things Don't Go Right.

Life Is A Journey

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.

The Church's Challenge Is Staying Close To The People, Close To The People Of The United States, Not Being A Detached Church From The People But Close To Them, Close, Close, And This Is Something That The Church In The United States Has Understood And Understood Well.

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

Families Have A Citizenship Which Is Divine. The Identity Card They Have Is Given To Them By God. So That Within The Heart Of The Family, Truth, Goodness And Beauty May Truly Grow.

God Calls You To Make Definitive Choices, And He Has A Plan For Each Of You: To Discover That Plan And To Respond To Your Vocation Is To Move Toward Personal Fulfillment.

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.

Given - And This Is The Fundamental Thing - That God's Mercy Has No Limits, If He Is Approached With A Sincere And Repentant Heart, The Question For Those Who Do Not Believe In God Is To Abide By Their Own Conscience. There Is Sin, Also For Those Who Have No Faith, In Going Against One's Conscience. Listening To It And Abiding By It Means Making Up One's Mind About What Is Good And Evil.

[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.

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

If I Speak Of Islamic Violence, I Must Speak Of Catholic Violence.

How Can It Be That It Is Not A News Item When An Elderly Homeless Person Dies Of Exposure, But It Is News When The Stock Market Loses Two Points? This Is A Case Of Exclusion.

Economic Inequality

We Need To Avoid The Spiritual Sickness Of A Church That Is Wrapped Up In Its Own World: When A Church Becomes Like This, It Grows Sick.

Our World Needs Good And Strong Families.

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

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.

Pastors Must Welcome The Lost Sheep. Actually, I Made A Mistake. I Said Welcome, Rather, Go Out And Find Them.

I Think That Even The Mexican Society Is A Victim Of All Of This, Of These Crimes Of "cleaning" People, Of Discarding People.

The Holy Spirit Is A Great Worker, Not A 'trade Unionist.' He Is A Great Worker, And He Works In Us, Always. He Does This Work Of Explaining The Mystery Of Jesus, And Of Giving Us This Sense Of Christ.

Dear Young People, Do Not Give Up Your Dreams Of A More Just World!

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.

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