Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It is part of his plan; it means causing the world to grow responsibly, transforming it so that it may be a garden, a habitable place for everyone.

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.