A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

Jesus, the Word incarnate, is always the center of our announcement, the point of reference for our evangelizing mission and for its methodology, because He is the human face of God, who wishes to meet all men and women so as to bring them into communion with Him, in His love.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.