If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems

From the way children are treated society can be judged.

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.