Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There, we can see God’s reply: violence is not answered with violence, death is not answered with the language of death. In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue, and peace is spoken.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

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.