And there is this fact of the twelve baskets: why twelve? What does it mean? Twelve is the number of the tribes of Israel, symbolically it represents all the people. And this tells us that when food is shared equally, with solidarity, nobody is devoid of the necessary, each community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology go hand in hand.

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.