On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

Patriarch Kirill. I would prefer - because if I say one thing, I have to say another and another and another. I would prefer that what we spoke about, us, alone, will remain only what we said in public.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.