It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.