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

Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.

This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.

In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Violence and war lead only to death.

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace