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

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.