Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves$$$ beyond their own desires and needs.

Truth$$$ according to the Christian faith$$$ is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore$$$ truth is a relationship.

Our faith in Christ$$$ who became poor$$$ and was always close to the poor and the outcast$$$ is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society's most neglected members.

St. Paul says that the love of Christ compels us$$$ but this compels us can also be translated as possesses us. And so it is: love attracts us and sends us; it draws us in and gives us to others.

Before all else$$$ the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us$$$ to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

Idolatry$$$ then$$$ is always polytheism$$$ an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

If one doesn't worry$$$ how does one understand?

It is so difficult - at least$$$ I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Money doesn't make us anyway. It just unmasks us.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement.