Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.

The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy.

The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission.