The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that order structured into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.