While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded families, remarried families, etc. But of this one mustn't forget the children in the middle. They are the first victims, both in the wounds, and in the conditions of poverty, of work.