Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.