There Is Nothing The Church Can Do

The Golden Rule Reminds Us Of Our Responsibility To Protect And Defend Human Life At Every Stage Of Its Development. This Conviction Has Led Me, From The Beginning Of My Ministry, To Advocate At Different Levels For The Global Abolition Of The Death Penalty.

We Christians Bring Peace And Grace As A Treasure To Be Offered To The World, But These Gifts Can Bear Fruit Only When Christians Live And Work Together In Harmony. This Makes It Easier To Contribute To Building Relations Of Respect And Peaceful Coexistence With Those Who Belong To Other Religious Traditions, And With Non-believers.

To Be Prophets, In Particular, By Demonstrating How Jesus Lived On This Earth, And To Proclaim How The Kingdom Of God Will Be In Its Perfection. A Religious Must Never Give Up Prophesising Let Us Think About What So Many Great Saints, Monks And Religious Men And Women Have Done, From St Anthony The Abbot Onward. Being Prophets May Sometimes Involve Making Ruido [spanish For Noise]. I Do Not Know How To Put It Prophecy Makes Noise, Uproar, Some Say 'a Mess.' But In Reality, The Charism Of Religious People Is Like Yeast: Prophecy Announces The Spirit Of The Gospel.

It Is Difficult To Judge The Past By The Criteria Of The Present.

Evolution In Nature Is Not Opposed To The Notion Of Creation, Because Evolution Presupposes The Creation Of Beings That Evolve.