A Good Example Brings About So Much

Are Our Lives Truly Filled With The Presence Of God? How Many Things Take The Place Of God In My Life Each Day?

Unrestrained Liberalism Only Makes The Strong Stronger And The Weak Weaker And Excludes The Most Excluded.

Following Jesus Means Taking Up One's Own Cross To Accompany Him On His Path, An Uncomfortable Path That Is Not One Of Success Or Earthly Glory, But Which Leads To True Freedom, The Freedom From Selfishness And Sin.

In This Case [the Charlemagne Prize], I Don't Say (i Was) Forced, But Convinced By The Holy And Theological Headstrongness Of Cardinal [walter] Kasper, Because He Was Chosen, Elected By Aachen To Convince Me. And I Said Yes, But In The Vatican. And I Said I Offer It For Europe, As A Co-decoration For Europe, A Prize So That Europe May Do What I Desired At Strasburg; That It May No Longer Be "grandmother Europe" But "mother Europe."

Dear Young People, Jesus Wants To Be Your Friend, And Wants You To Spread The Joy Of This Friendship Everywhere.