War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.

Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

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

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.