If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

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.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.