The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong. . . . [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.

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

The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

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