We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a link in this chain of love. And if we do not understand this, we have understood nothing of what the Church is.

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

We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

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

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.