Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

Even today there is need for conversion to God, to the God of love so that the world is freed from wars and from terrorism.

Today, the Lord puts us on guard against the self-reliance that puts a limit on his limitless love. He invites us to imitate his humility.

We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees us and blesses us.

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.