...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul. |
[I kiss the soil] as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. |
A happy new year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world. |
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. |
Anything done for another is done for oneself. |
As a man of peace, we pray to St. Joseph for those threatened by war and we invoke the precious gift of harmony upon the whole human family. |
As I enter a new chapter in my twilight years, I can say with gratitude that I have given my very best to God and country, |
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. |
At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to say, 'There is no solidarity without love.' Indeed, there is no future for the individual and the nation (without love). |
Christ is truly risen! In him, today, we can overcome forces of evil. |
Christ opens the door to the pope. |
deep participation in their pain. |
deeply grieved by the fact that priests and religious have themselves caused such suffering and scandal among the young. |
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. |
eliminate the specter of hunger from the planet. |