The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

[Mexican people] have a culture, a culture that goes back millennia.

Let us pause before the Child of Bethlehem. Let us allow our hearts to be touched, let us allow ourselves to be warmed by the tenderness of God; we need his caress. God is full of love: to him be praise and glory forever! God is peace: let us ask him to help us to be peacemakers each day, in our life, in our families, in our cities and nations, in the whole world. Let us allow ourselves to be moved by God's goodness.