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Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

Capitalism is a new tyranny based on the fanciful idea that economic growth brings about greater justice and that those wielding economic power are well-intentioned.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practice it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Trickle down economics is the unfounded assumption that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world, expressing a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.