Robert Sarah

"On that September morning I spent more than an hour with John Paul II. During the meal he asked me my age. I told him that I was thirty-four years old. He then let out a great burst of laughter and ex…"

"Two millennia ago, the apostles followed Christ. They left everything, and their lives were never again the same. The path taken by the apostles is still a model today."

"No prophet ever encountered God without withdrawing into solitude and silence. Moses, Elijah, and John the Baptist encountered God in the great silence of the desert. Today, too, monks seek God in sol…"

"Baptized persons have the duty to believe not only with their heart but also with their intellect."

"At the heart of man there is an innate silence, for God abides in the innermost part of every person."

"We bishops ought to tremble at the thought of our guilty silences, our complicit silences, our over-indulgent silences in dealing with the world."

"It is true, Archbishop Tchidimbo was very strict, intensely upright, and endlessly demanding. He used to come visit us at the minor seminary in Kindia. I remember that he insisted on the importance of…"

"All human life is a struggle against the shackles of evil, against the slavery of sin, in order to regain true freedom."