If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.

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