How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

The fight against evil is long and difficult. It is essential to pray constantly and to be patient.

We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated. The relationship of mankind with nature must not be conducted with greed, manipulation and exploitation, but it must conserve the divine harmony that exists between creatures and Creation within the logic of respect and care, so it can be put to the service of our brothers, also of future generations.