If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.

The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.