When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.

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 must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time