Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.

We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect on the problem of thrown away and wasted food to identify ways and means that, by seriously addressing this issue, are a vehicle of solidarity and sharing with the needy.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people.

Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.