Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.