Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.

The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger