None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons