Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.

Are we capable of bringing the word of God into the environment in which we live? Do we know how to speak of Christ, of what he represents for us, in our families, among the people who form part of our daily lives? Faith is born from listening, and is strengthened by proclamation.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.