Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent in human nature, in man's dignity as a free being, and is also an indicator of a healthy democracy and cone of the main sources of the legitimacy of the State. Religious freedom ... favors the development of relationships of mutual respect between the different Confessions and their healthy collaboration with the State and political society, without confusion of roles and without antagonism.

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

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.