It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

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.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.