Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and human dignity, for the rights of today's generations and those to come, prevails.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.