During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to you. I want to express the love and the hopes of the Church for you. And I want to encourage you as Christian citizens of this country to offer yourselves passionately and honestly to the great work of renewing your society and helping to build a better world.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil.