Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.