The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.

We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.