The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!

A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.