We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.