So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.

The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father’s tenderness and love towards each of us.

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead, of the homeland towards which we walk.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.