Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you

The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.

My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.