Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world

Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.

This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.