The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

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

Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.

In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.