Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable of responding to the challenges of our times and prepared to spread the Gospel far and wide.