Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded families, remarried families, etc. But of this one mustn't forget the children in the middle. They are the first victims, both in the wounds, and in the conditions of poverty, of work.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow.