Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an indelible youthfulness and beauty that never wanes. May young people have increasing confidence in her and may they entrust their lives to her.

The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.