For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.