The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.

We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.

Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church it has not valued much.