The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.

How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.