How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.