The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

In the eyes of the unrighteous it appeared that God did not intervene and that His Son died, but for believers it was at that precise moment that true glory was manifested and definitive salvation achieved.

Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are losing their identity under the influence of a secularized culture. The need for a new evangelization, so deeply felt by my venerable Predecessor, must be valiantly reaffirmed, in the certainty that God's word is effective.

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

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

Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.