Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.