Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

In the face of life’s difficulties, let us ask the Lord for the strength to remain joyful witnesses to our faith.

Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.