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

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.