Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

We Christians bring peace and grace as a treasure to be offered to the world, but these gifts can bear fruit only when Christians live and work together in harmony. This makes it easier to contribute to building relations of respect and peaceful coexistence with those who belong to other religious traditions, and with non-believers.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father’s tenderness and love towards each of us.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.

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