One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.