If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.

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

When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.

Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.