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Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.
None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.
Be men and women with others and for others: true champions at the service of others.
Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.
Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.
Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously
We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness
Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' . . . 'you need to protect this victory.'
How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!
Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.
You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.
Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.
We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.
We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!
Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.
Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian
Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.
Dear young people, always be missionaries of the Gospel, every day and in every place.
May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.
A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.
The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.
Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.
Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.
How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ’s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.
I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace
In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.
I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.
Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.
The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.
Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.
Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!
Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did
That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.
We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.
Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.
Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.
I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.
There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.
One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.
Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Amid so many problems, even grave, may we not lose our hope in the infinite mercy of God.
Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care
Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.
Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.