Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

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.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.