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

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or a parish community, indeed of the whole Church and the whole of mankind, since it contains, beneath the veil of the species, Christ the invisible Head of the Church, the Redeemer of the world, the center of all hearts, 'by whom all things are and by whom we exist'.

Never give advice in a crowd.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.