To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the first of these challenges: solidarity among generations, solidarity between countries and entire continents, so that all human beings may share more equitably in the riches of our planet. This is one of the essential services that people of good will must render to humanity. The earth, in fact, can produce enough to nourish all its inhabitants, on the condition that the rich countries do not keep for themselves what belongs to all.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.