My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.

May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.