Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent in human nature, in man's dignity as a free being, and is also an indicator of a healthy democracy and cone of the main sources of the legitimacy of the State. Religious freedom ... favors the development of relationships of mutual respect between the different Confessions and their healthy collaboration with the State and political society, without confusion of roles and without antagonism.

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.

Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

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