The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward.

Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.