If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.