Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

I have great love for Saint Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have an image of Saint Joseph sleeping. Even when he is asleep, he is taking care of the Church! Yes! We know that he can do that. So when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a little note and I put it underneath Saint Joseph, so that he can dream about it! In other words I tell him: pray for this problem!

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.