I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.