The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

True peace is not a balance of opposing forces, and it is not ‘a lovely façade’ simply covering conflicts and divisions. Rather, peace calls for daily commitment -- it's homemade -- starting from God's gift, from the grace which he has given us in Jesus Christ.

Let us always pray for one another.