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

With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth.

The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.