Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.

A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — ​what gospel is that?

We are prophets of a future not our own.

Peace is the product of justice and love.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.