If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

From the way children are treated society can be judged.

If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.