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

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.