These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

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.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.