“The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.”
Pope Francis, in his interview with Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro published in America magazine

“Christianity started here and it won’t disappear from there. We have to encourage our Christians to be strong.”
Bishop Boutros Melki, Syriac Catholic patriarchal vicar, on the challenges facing Christians in war-torn Syria, where churches have been attacked and clergy and lay people targeted with violence