You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.

No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.