The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.