Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace.

Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.