You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.