يوسف سويف

We choose the logic of dialogue, reject everything that sows division or weakens the state, and commit to a culture of peace and shared responsibility.

Today we meet in St. Michael's Cathedral, the bishop's church and a sign of the diocese's unity, on the feast of our patron and on a Sunday that brings us a new call to renewal.

Citizenship is not an idea outside of faith, but one of the arenas where it is embodied in public life. We are called to move from 'I' to 'we,' and to build a homeland that preserves the dignity of every person, protects its pluralism, establishes a state of institutions, justice and transparency, provides education, work, health and security, and preserves sovereignty and the state's monopoly on security in the hands of the state and its legitimate institutions.