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...

In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.

Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.