There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong. . . . [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.

Worshipping the Lord means giving him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing-not only by our words- that he alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before him that he is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

The key that opens the door to the faith is prayer.