We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world.

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

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.