Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good.

We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.

Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?

The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.