A Great Challenge: Stop Ruining The Garden

Brothers And Sisters, Good Evening. You All Know That The Duty Of The Conclave Was To Give A Bishop To Rome. It Seems That My Brother Cardinals Have Gone Almost To The Ends Of The Earth To Get Him... But Here We Are.

There Is Another Form Of Poverty! It Is The Spiritual Poverty Of Our Time, Which Afflicts The So-called Richer Countries Particularly Seriously.

Accompanying The People In Their Growth Through Good Times And Also Through Their Difficulties, Accompanying People In Their Joy And In Their Bad Moments, In Their Difficulties When There Is No Work, Ill Health And The Challenge Of The Church.

No One Listens Willingly To Someone Who Speaks To Them From A Position Of Self-righteousness And Judgment. Again And Again In The Gospels, Jesus Reserves His Harshest Words For Those Who Ignore Their Own Weakness In Order To Lord It Over Others.

The Root Of This Possibility Of Doing Good - That We All Have - Is In Creation.