Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may dare to love him, and as a child trustingly lets himself be taken into our arms. It is as if God were saying: I know that my glory frightens you, and that you are trying to assert yourself in the face of my grandeur. So now I am coming to you as a child, so that you can accept me and love me.

Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy.

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