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.

It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

Peace is the language we must speak.

Violence and war lead only to death.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.