Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.

Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.

The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.

May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day