The key that opens the door to the faith is prayer.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.