It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

Let us be protectors of all of Gods Creatures

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.