God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.

How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search of divine mercy, and are waiting for a "sign" that will touch their minds and their hearts! Today, as then, the Evangelist reminds us that the only "sign" is Jesus raised on the cross: Jesus who died and rose is the absolutely sufficient sign. Through him we can understand the truth about life and obtain salvation.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.