For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him.

Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.

The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.