The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.

The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

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