Only those who serve with love are able to protect!

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.