'The history of the Italian Railways attests also to the special attention given to the poorest, with several initiatives of solidarity, old and recent.'
'It is about this return to essentials that I wish to speak today, just a few days after the Church’s inauguration of the pilgrimage of the Holy Year of Mercy, a Year which represents for her and for all of us a pressing summons to gratitude, conversion, renewal, penance and reconciliation.'