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

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

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

The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them better and saw the good they do.

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.

Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?