If a company can declare bankruptcy, why can't a country do so?

There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups.

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world.

So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.