Well, thank you very much for that and good morning to everybody. Always a joy to be here in the arena. I first started coming to this congress back in 1997. I'm becoming a very old man. And it's always a joy to come back. It's one of the great [...]

I am in Liverpool, England. I'm on the banks of the Mersey River on a kind of chilly evening. Just arrived here. I'm speaking tomorrow at the Eucharistic Congress and giving two talks one of which will be on the mass I figured a Eucharistic [...]

The first great moment of encounter is the Liturgy of the Word. God speaks of course through all things and in all places, but He communicates with particular clarity through Israel, and salvation history. The Mass presents this Word to us, and then [...]