We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.

We who are Christians, members of God’s family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them.

Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!