No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and 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

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].

Do I take the Gospel message of reconciliation and love into the places where I live and work?

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love