Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.

Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything.

Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified.