Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

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.