Thank you very much for the warm welcome you have given me and for your song and dance, your words of greeting and your testimonies! ...read more

With the words of the Responsorial Psalm, we prayed: “O God... my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water” (Psalm 63:2). ...read more

Allow me to address you in this way, as a brother in faith to those who believe in Christ, and as a brother to all of you in the name of our shared religious quest and our membership in the one human family. ...read more

Thank you, Your Excellency, for your kind words. Thank you Sister Salvia, Fr. Peter Sanjaajav and Rufina for your testimonies. ...read more

I thank His Excellency the President for his warm welcome and his kind words, and I greet all of you most cordially. ...read more

“Let Justice and Peace Flow” is the theme of this year’s ecumenical Season of Creation, inspired by the words of the prophet Amos: “Let justice flow on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (5:24). ...read more

We join the Holy Father in praying for persons living on the margins of society; may they not be overlooked by institutions. ...read more

Now, continuing our catechesis on the theme of apostolic zeal and passion for proclaiming the Gospel, we look today at St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first native North American woman to be canonized. ...read more

In our journey of rediscovering the passion for proclaiming the Gospel, that apostolic zeal; seeing how this passion to proclaim the Gospel has developed in the history of the Church ...read more

This has truly been a World Youth Day of words. While the main theme prompts us to reflect on the verbs "to arise" and "to go with haste," many other words jumped out at me as well. ...read more