Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil.

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.

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams?

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.