Our relationship with the followers of Islam has taken on great importance, since they are now significantly present in many traditionally Christian countries, where they can freely worship and become fully a part of society. We must never forget that they "profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day".

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

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.

We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart

The rosary is spiritual medicine.

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.