The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.

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.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

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.