In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.