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

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.