I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. |
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. |
I look with awe at this huge building which, in the richness of its architecture, is an expression of faith and love for Holy Mary and for Her Son. |
I pray to God that the people in that country will try to live in peace. |
I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary. |
I urge you to adopt a policy of zero tolerance for all offenders, whether they have abused one child or adolescent or many, whether past, present or future. |
In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant. |
In those difficult times, we asked that His power might be poured into the hearts of men and women and that hope might be stirred in them. Is not all that happened at that time in Europe and the world, beginning with our own homeland, God's response? |
It is indispensable that today's Europe safeguard its patrimony of values and recognize that the force able to promote, encourage and consolidate them is above all Christianity. |
It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it. |
It is very good. |
Let me go to the house of the Father. |
Let us pray to God that each one, listening to his own conscience, has the courage to perform responsible and concrete gestures which will allow all to walk the road of peace together, avoiding anything that could lead back to hatred and violence, |
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. |
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. |