The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

To all of you, I repeat: Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! And not only that, but I say to us all: let us not rob others of hope, let us become bearers of hope!

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.