It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he defeats it with his resurrection. This is the good that Jesus does for us on the throne of the cross. Christ's cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness, but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.