Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded families, remarried families, etc. But of this one mustn't forget the children in the middle. They are the first victims, both in the wounds, and in the conditions of poverty, of work.