Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.

What has the Cross left in each of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the certainty of the faithful love which God has for us. A love so great that it enters into our sin and forgives it, enters into our suffering and gives us the strength to bear it. It is a love which enters into death to conquer it and save us.