It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic structures a more equitable and solidaristic configuration.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

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

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.