Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.

Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.

You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

We all have the duty to do good.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.