In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

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.

Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.