Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death