The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

It is important to have friends we can trust. But it is essential to trust the Lord, who never lets us down.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.