Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.

With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.

By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.

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

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.