The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even with inadequate instruments comforts me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

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

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.