I Don’t Know If It Is All

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.

The Church Is Likewise Conscious Of The Responsibility Which All Of Us Have For Our World, For The Whole Of Creation, Which We Must Love And Protect. There Is Much That We Can Do To Benefit The Poor, The Needy And Those Who Suffer, And To Favour Justice, Promote Reconciliation And Build Peace. But Before All Else We Need To Keep Alive In Our World The Thirst For The Absolute, And To Counter The Dominance Of A One-dimensional Vision Of The Human Person, A Vision Which Reduces Human Beings To What They Produce And To What They Consume: This Is One Of The Most Insidious Temptations Of Our Time.

The Charismatics Confused The Holy Liturgy With A School Of Samba, But Than I Was Converted When I Got To Know Them Better And Saw The Good They Do.

Not So Much Anymore But Some Years Ago In My Homeland There Was A Habit, Something Called 'casamiento De Apuro,' A Marriage In Haste Because The Baby Is Coming And To Cover Socially The Honor Of The Family. There, They Weren't Free And It Happened Many Times This Marriage Is Null. As A Bishop I Forbade My Priests To Do This.

We Are All Jars Of Clay, Fragile And Poor, Yet We Carry Within Us An Immense Treasure.