When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and is now affecting the young.

Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.

Each of us is a masterpiece of God's creation

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.