Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

Another very interesting chapter is the education of children: the victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in. For example, the needs of a job. When the dad doesn't have free time to speak to his children, when the mother doesn't have time to speak with her children.

Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.