Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food - that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don’t care; we don’t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

We cannot take a step in our Christian life without the help of the Lord, because we are weak.