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When We Read About Creation In Genesis, We Run The Risk Of Imagining God Was A Magician, With A Magic Wand Able To Do Everything. But That Is Not So. He Created Human Beings And Let Them Develop According To The Internal Laws That He Gave To Each One So They Would Reach Their Fulfillment.

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When We Read About Creation In Genesis, We Run The Risk Of Imagining God Was A Magician, With A Magic Wand Able To Do Everything. But That Is Not So. He Created Human Beings And Let Them Develop According To The Internal Laws That He Gave To Each One So They Would Reach Their Fulfillment.

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Who Am I To Judge A Gay Person?

I Pray The Breviary Every Morning. I Like To Pray With The Psalms. Then, Later, I Celebrate Mass. I Pray The Rosary. What I Really Prefer Is Adoration In The Evening, Even When I Get Distracted And Think Of Other Things, Or Even Fall Asleep Praying. In The Evening Then, Between Seven And Eight O'clock, I Stay In Front Of The Blessed Sacrament For An Hour In Adoration. But I Pray Mentally Even When I Am Waiting At The Dentist Or At Other Times Of The Day.

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.

Brothers And Sisters, Good Evening. You All Know That The Duty Of The Conclave Was To Give A Bishop To Rome. It Seems That My Brother Cardinals Have Gone Almost To The Ends Of The Earth To Get Him... But Here We Are.

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

Today In Many Places We Hear A Call For Greater Security. But Until Exclusion And Inequality In Society And Between Peoples Is Reversed, It Will Be Impossible To Eliminate Violence.

Let Us Draw From The Crib The Joy And Deep Peace That Jesus Comes To Bring To The World.

Let Love Simply Bloom... And It Is Unstoppable.

So Let Us Ask Ourselves This Evening, In Adoring Christ Who Is Really Present In The Eucharist: Do I Let Myself Be Transformed By Him? Do I Let The Lord Who Gives Himself To Me, Guide Me To Going Out Ever More From My Little Enclosure, In Order To Give, To Share, To Love Him And Others? Brothers And Sisters, Following, Communion, Sharing. Let Us Pray That Participation In The Eucharist May Always Be An Incentive: To Follow The Lord Every Day, To Be Instruments Of Communion And To Share What We Are With Him And With Our Neighbour. Our Life Will Then Be Truly Fruitful.

Let Us Pray For Peace: Peace In The World And In Each Of Our Hearts.

We Christians Identify Christ With The Sun, And The Moon With The Church, The Community Of The Faithful. No One, Save Jesus Christ, Possesses His Or Her Own Light.

There Are The Saints Of Every Day, The 'hidden' Saints, A Sort Of 'middle Class Of Holiness'... To Which We Can All Belong.

Who Are We, As We Stand Before The Child Jesus? Who Are We, Standing As We Stand Before Today's Children? Are We Like Mary And Joseph, Who Welcomed Jesus And Cared For Him With The Love Of A Father And A Mother? Or Are We Like Herod, Who Wanted To Eliminate Him? Are We Like The Shepherds, Who Went In Haste To Kneel Before Him In Worship And Offer Him Their Humble Gifts? Or Are We Indifferent?

The Tyranny Of Relativism Is The Spiritual Poverty Of Our Time

Fathers Should Speak With Their Children.

It [abortion] Is A Crime, An Absolute Evil.

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!

Many People Who Are Forced Into Emigration Suffer And Often Die Tragically; Many Of Their Rights Are Violated, They Are Obliged To Separate From Their Families And, Unfortunately, Continue To Be Subjected To Racist Attitudes And Xenophobia.

The Great Challenge Facing Us Today Is To Learn Once Again How To Talk To One Another, Not Simply How To Generate And Consume Information. The Latter Is A Tendency Which Our Important And Influential Modern Communications Media Can Encourage. Information Is Important, But It Is Not Enough. All Too Often Things Get Simplified, Different Positions And Viewpoints Are Pitted Against One Another, And People Are Invited To Take Sides, Rather Than To See Things As A Whole.

You Can't Govern Without Loving The People And Without Humility!

I Ask All People Of Goodwill To Help Build A Culture Of Encounter, Solidarity And Peace

In The Western Church To Which I Belong, Priests Cannot Be Married As In The Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian Or Greek Catholic Churches. In Those Churches, The Priests Can Be Married, But The Bishops Have To Be Celibate. They Are Very Good Priests.

Be Missionaries Of God's Tenderness!

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