To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.