The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.

Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity, working together, fraternity, in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth, the promotion of growth, cooperation for development and conflict resolution. 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God', as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.