On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion... They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, ‘for ever’, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.