The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.

The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.