Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a link in this chain of love. And if we do not understand this, we have understood nothing of what the Church is.

Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.

The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.