The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

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!'.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth as we have in the past ... [A] new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.