Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter.

The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.