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While The Earnings Of A Minority Are Growing Exponentially, So Too Is The Gap Separating The Majority From The Prosperity Enjoyed By Those Happy Few. This Imbalance Is The Result Of Ideologies Which Defend The Absolute Autonomy Of The Marketplace And Financial Speculation. Consequently, They Reject The Right Of States, Charged With Vigilance For The Common Good, To Exercise Any Form Of Control.

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While The Earnings Of A Minority Are Growing Exponentially, So Too Is The Gap Separating The Majority From The Prosperity Enjoyed By Those Happy Few. This Imbalance Is The Result Of Ideologies Which Defend The Absolute Autonomy Of The Marketplace And Financial Speculation. Consequently, They Reject The Right Of States, Charged With Vigilance For The Common Good, To Exercise Any Form Of Control.

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Religious Freedom

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Changing The World

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Let Us Never Forget That It Is The Lord Who Guides The Church. He Is The One Who Makes Our Apostolates Fruitful.

It Is My Hope That Inter-religious And Ecumenical Cooperation Will Demonstrate That Men And Women Do Not Have To Forsake Their Identity, Whether Ethnic Or Religious, In Order To Live In Harmony With Their Brothers And Sisters. If We Are Honest In Presenting Our Convictions, We Will Be Able To See More Clearly What We Hold In Common.

It Is Necessary To Reaffirm Our Solid Opposition To Any Direct Offense Against Life, Especially When Innocent And Defenseless, And The Unborn Child In Its Mother's Womb Is The Quintessence Of Innocence. Let Us Remember The Words Of Vatican Council Ii: 'therefore From The Moment Of Its Conception Life Must Be Guarded With The Greatest Care While Abortion And Infanticide Are Unspeakable Crimes.'

The Family Is The Greatest Treasure Of Any Country. Let Us All Work To Protect And Strengthen This, The Cornerstone Of Society.

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We Face So Many Challenges In Life: Poverty, Distress, Humiliation, The Struggle For Justice, Persecutions, The Difficulty Of Daily Conversion, The Effort To Remain Faithful To Our Call To Holiness, And Many Others. But If We Open The Door To Jesus And Allow Him To Be Part Of Our Lives, If We Share Our Joys And Sorrows With Him, Then We Will Experience The Peace And Joy That Only God, Who Is Infinite Love, Can Give.

We Live In An Age Rather Skeptical Of Truth, Of Its Existence." There Is A "tendency To Believe That Nothing Is Definitive, And Think That The Truth Is Given By Consent Or By What We Want. The Question Arises: Does "the" Truth Really Exist? What Is "the" Truth? Can We Know It? Can We Find It?

Every Child That Isn't Born, But Is Unjustly Condemned To Be Aborted, Has The Face Of Jesus Christ, Has The Face Of The Lord.

Our Faith In Christ, Who Became Poor, And Was Always Close To The Poor And The Outcast, Is The Basis Of Our Concern For The Integral Development Of Society’s Most Neglected Members.

How Many Kinds Of Moral And Material Poverty We Face Today As A Result Of Denying God And Putting So Many Idols In His Place!

Accompanying The People In Their Growth Through Good Times And Also Through Their Difficulties, Accompanying People In Their Joy And In Their Bad Moments, In Their Difficulties When There Is No Work, Ill Health And The Challenge Of The Church.

Jesus Kept His Wounds So That We Would Experience His Mercy. This Is Our Strength And Our Hope.

For Every Christian, The Proclamation And Witnessing Of The Gospel Are Never An Isolated Act. This Is Important. For Every Christian The Proclamation And Witnessing Of The Gospel Are Never An Isolated Or Group Act, And No Evangelizers Acts, As Paul Vi Reminded Very Well, "on The Strength Of A Personal Inspiration, But In Union With The Mission Of The Church And In Her Name"

Whoever Does Not Pray To God, Prays To The Devil.

The Golden Rule Reminds Us Of Our Responsibility To Protect And Defend Human Life At Every Stage Of Its Development. This Conviction Has Led Me, From The Beginning Of My Ministry, To Advocate At Different Levels For The Global Abolition Of The Death Penalty.

Brothers And Sisters, Good Evening. You All Know That The Duty Of The Conclave Was To Give A Bishop To Rome. It Seems That My Brother Cardinals Have Gone Almost To The Ends Of The Earth To Get Him... But Here We Are.

Human Life Must Always Be Defended From Its Beginning In The Womb And Must Be Recognised As A Gift Of God That Guarantees The Future Of Humanity.

Only Trust In God Can Transform Doubts Into Certainty, Evil Into Good, Night Into Radiant Dawn.

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.

It's Not A Problem That We're Sinners; It's A Problem That We Aren't Ashamed Of Our Sin And Don't Seek Forgiveness.

In A Family It Is Normal To Take Charge Of Those Who Need Help. Do Not Be Afraid Of Frailty!

The Border Between Good And Evil Passes Not Outside Of Us But Within Us

We Learn Many Virtues In Our Christian Families. Above All, We Learn To Love, Asking Nothing In Return.

No One Must Use The Name Of God To Commit Violence. To Kill In The Name Of God Is A Grave Sacrilege. To Discriminate In The Name Of God Is Inhuman.

Do Not Be Content To Live A Mediocre Christian Life: Walk With Determination Along The Path Of Holiness.

Sin, Also For Those Who Don't Have Faith, Exists When One Goes Against One's Conscience. To Listen To And Obey It Means, In Fact, To Decide In Face Of What Is Perceived As Good Or Evil. And On This Decision Pivots The Goodness Or Malice Of Our Action.

There Is Nothing The Church Can Do Except Try To Educate People To Become Good Consumers.

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