We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.

All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.

Mary is more important than the apostles.

It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.