The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity. And why should they not turn to God to draw inspiration from his designs? In this way, a new political and economic mindset would arise that would help to transform the absolute dichotomy between the economic and social spheres into a healthy symbiosis.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

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

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.