We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.

When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and is now affecting the young.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.