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

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God hidden in a human heart, in a human face.

In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.