Julián Carrón, President of the Communion and Liberation Fraternity. Introduced by Bernhard Scholz, President of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples Foundation.

When circumstances are unfavourable, you start hoping fora better future, projecting your own expectations into a desired but essentially uncertain change. Such hope often ends up in disappointment, resignation, violence or more sophisticated new projections. So, is there a kind of hope that does not exclusively depend on more favourable circumstances, which does not need to escape difficulties but which has the strength to face reality as it is and to trigger from the inside a dynamic aimed at a more beautiful and freer life?