Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.