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

It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.