Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated. The relationship of mankind with nature must not be conducted with greed, manipulation and exploitation, but it must conserve the divine harmony that exists between creatures and Creation within the logic of respect and care, so it can be put to the service of our brothers, also of future generations.

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!