It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.

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

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.