There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.

Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.

The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.