Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.