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The Church Encourages Those In Power To Be Truly At The Service Of The Common Good Of Their Peoples. She Urges Financial Leaders To Take Account Of Ethics And Solidarity. And Why Should They Not Turn To God To Draw Inspiration From His Designs? In This Way, A New Political And Economic Mindset Would Arise That Would Help To Transform The Absolute Dichotomy Between The Economic And Social Spheres Into A Healthy Symbiosis.

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The Church Encourages Those In Power To Be Truly At The Service Of The Common Good Of Their Peoples. She Urges Financial Leaders To Take Account Of Ethics And Solidarity. And Why Should They Not Turn To God To Draw Inspiration From His Designs? In This Way, A New Political And Economic Mindset Would Arise That Would Help To Transform The Absolute Dichotomy Between The Economic And Social Spheres Into A Healthy Symbiosis.

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Dear Young People, Pray With Me For Peace In The World.

I Made Reference Continuously To The Killings, The Death, The Life Taken By All Of These Narcotrafficking Gangs And Human Smugglers. I Spoke Of This Problem As One Of The Wounds That Mexico Suffers. It's A Great Pain That I'm Taking, Because This Nation [mexicans] Doesn't Deserve A Drama Like This One.

Are We Capable Of Bringing The Word Of God Into The Environment In Which We Live? Do We Know How To Speak Of Christ, Of What He Represents For Us, In Our Families, Among The People Who Form Part Of Our Daily Lives? Faith Is Born From Listening, And Is Strengthened By Proclamation.

Every Catholic Parliamentarian Must Vote According Their Well-formed Conscience. I Would Say Just This. I Believe It Is Sufficient Because - I Say Well-formed Because It Is Not The Conscience Of 'what Seems To Me.'

Are You Angry With Someone? Pray For That Person. That Is What Christian Love Is.

The Family Is The Salt Of The Earth And The Light Of The World, It Is The Leaven Of Society.

I Like It When Someone Tells Me: 'i Don't Agree.' This Is A True Collaborator. When They Say 'oh, How Great, How Great, How Great,' That's Not Useful.

My Choices, Including Those Related To The Day-to-day Aspects Of Life, Like The Use Of A Modest Car, Are Related To A Spiritual Discernment That Responds To A Need That Arises From Looking At Things, At People And From Reading The Signs Of The Times. Discernment In The Lord Guides Me In My Way Of Governing.

The Mystery Of The Cross, A Mystery Of Love, Can Only Be Understood In Prayer. Pray And Weep, Kneeling Before The Cross.

The Key Phrase Used By The Synod, Which I'll Take Up Again, Is 'integrate' In The Life Of The Church The Wounded Families, Remarried Families, Etc. But Of This One Mustn't Forget The Children In The Middle. They Are The First Victims, Both In The Wounds, And In The Conditions Of Poverty, Of Work.

How Many Of Us, Myself Included, Have Lost Our Bearings; We Are No Longer Attentive To The World In Which We Live; We Don’t Care; We Don’t Protect What God Created For Everyone, And We End Up Unable Even To Care For One Another.

Economic Inequality

We Are A Church Of Sinners But We Must Not Be Afraid Of Holiness. Do Not Be Afraid To Aim For Holiness And Turn Yourselves Over To The Love Of God. Holiness Does Not Mean Performing Extraordinary Things But Carrying Out Daily Things In An Extraordinary Way That Is With Love, Joy And Faith.

I Love Tango, And I Used To Dance When I Was Young.

If Jesus Is To Become The Center Of Our Life, We Need To Spend Time In His Presence, Before The Tabernacle.

There Is A Danger That Threatens Everyone In The Church, All Of Us. The Danger Of Worldliness. It Leads Us To Vanity, Arrogance And Pride.

How Does St. Joseph Exercise His Role As Protector? Discreetly, Humbly And Silently, But With An Unfailing Presence And Utter Fidelity, Even When He Finds It Hard To Understand.

My People Are Poor And I Am One Of Them.

The Process Of Healing Also Needs To Include The Pursuit Of Truth, Not For The Sake Of Opening Old Wounds, But Rather As A Necessary Means Of Promoting Justice, Healing And Unity.

We Are All Sinners. We Are Called To A Conversion Of Heart

If Evil Is Contagious, So Is Good:therefore, We Must Allow Good To Abound In Us, More And More;let Us Be Infected By Goodness, And Let Us Spread The Good Contagion.

It Is Better To Have A Church That Is Wounded But Out In The Streets Than A Church That Is Sick Because It Is Closed In On Itself.

I Sincerely Hope I Can Contribute To The Progress There Has Been In Relations Between Jews And Catholics Since The Second Vatican Council In A Spirit Of Renewed Collaboration.

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