There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility...

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.

A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.

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

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.