We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.