Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.

Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

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

Peace is handcrafted. It is made every day. Also friendship among people, mutual knowledge, esteem, is handcrafted. It's made every day. Respect the other, say that which one thinks, but with respect, but walk together.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.