Vocations Are Born In Prayer And From

Prayer Is All-powerful. Let Us Use It To Bring Peace To The Middle East And Peace To The World.

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.

I Already Knew About This Friendship Between St. John Paul Ii And This Philosopher [ana Teresa Tymieniecka] When I Was In Buenos Aires. It Was Known. Also Her Books Are Known.

The Worldwide Financial And Economic Crisis Seems To Highlight Their Distortions And Above All The Gravely Deficient Human Perspective, Which Reduces Man To One Of His Needs Alone, Namely, Consumption. Worse Yet, Human Beings Themselves Are Nowadays Considered As Consumer Goods Which Can Be Used And Thrown Away.

Today, We Need A Church Capable Of Walking At People's Side, Of Doing More Than Simply Listening To Them.... At Times We Lose People Because They Don't Understand What We Are Saying, Because We Have Forgotten The Language Of Simplicity And Import An Intellectualism Foreign To Our People.... We Cannot Keep Ourselves Shut Up In Parishes, In Our Communities, When So Many People Are Waiting For The Gospel.