Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?