I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.