Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.

For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.