Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. The wall isn't a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficult, it's true. We have to be intelligent, and whoever comes...that migrant flow. It's not easy to find solutions, but with dialogue between nations they should be found. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are, always, always.

I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart.