Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters - members all of the same family - are able at last to live in peace.

Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

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

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.

This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist