We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

Jesus is the sun and Mary is the dawn announcing his rising.

The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.