Pope Francis: “It is necessary to ask the heavenly father for the gift of healthy restlessness for today’s young people, the ability to not settle for a life without beauty, without color. If young people are not hungry for an authentic life, where will humanity end up?”

Bishop Daniel Flores: “The degrading disrespect with which immigrants are treated in this country—like pawns in games of political showmanship—is a disgrace. Are we so drunk on our own power that we are blind to basic human dignity? Judgment on Christians who disrespect the poor will be most severe.”

Pope Francis: “In witnessing to the faith, what counts is not success, but fidelity to Christ.”

Pope Francis: “Go forth and reach out to all people at the margins of society! Go there and be the Church, with the strength of the Holy Spirit.”

US President Joe Biden: “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of Ukrainian people. He’ll never extinguish their love of freedom. And he will never, never weaken the resolve of the free world. ”

Pope Francis: “Let us be challenged by the words and actions of Jesus, and welcome his call to a life that is fully human, happy to spend itself in love.”

Pope Francis: “It is love that transforms: ordinary things become extraordinary when they are done with love.”