...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash.

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.