On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses it elicited. Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another and for their offenses committed in the sight of God. Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, and which makes us look with hope to the future.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.