Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

If there is no humility, love remains blocked.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.