It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

With Christ as the center of your life, you will never be disappointed.

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

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.

The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away.