I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: it is the cry for peace!

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.