we’re hopeful the governor will hear our plea and act in a way that shows the quality of mercy.

acknowledges the right of legitimate government to resort to the death penalty, but it challenges the appropriateness of doing so in a society now capable of defending the public order and ensuring the public’s safety.

He grew up in a town that was probably 30 percent Jewish, … He came back to his hometown after the war and found that his schoolmates and his friends were no more.

There are two people — my mother and Pope John Paul II — that will always stay vividly in my mind,

If there’s any kind of wrongdoing, it should be reported immediately to authorities and it should be dealt with promptly. That certainly is what we look for as we have come through a learning process...

in any event honoring former Mayor Giuliani.

I am confident that, by now, you understand many of the consequences that spring from an invitation having been extended to former Mayor Giuliani,

It was his idea to put in the Western Wall in Jerusalem the prayer asking God’s forgiveness for what had been done by Christians in other ages,

One cardinal told me while he was listening to the votes being counted, he said three rosaries. And I said two, and the third said, ‘Well I prayed mine with greater piety, and it was...

These years have been years of blessings, but also of learning, and there have been crosses, I don’t deny that for an instant, … But I say that in all of this, the joy and...

He seemed very grateful,