We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!