My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.