If There Is No Humility, Love Remains

Those Called To The Service Of Governance In The Church Need To Have A Strong Sense Of Justice, So That Any Form Of Injustice Becomes Unacceptable.

All Too Often, As We Know From Experience, People Do Not Choose Life; They Do Not Accept The Gospel Of Life, But Let Themselves Be Led By Ideologies And Ways Of Thinking That Block Life, That Do Not Respect Life, Because They Are Dictated By Selfishness, Self-interest, Profit, Power And Pleasure And Not By Love. ... As A Result, The Living God Is Replaced By Fleeting Human Idols, Which Offer The Intoxication Of A Flash Of Freedom, But In The End Bring New Forms Of Slavery And Death.

The Pope Doesn't Get Mixed Up In Italian Politics.

In This Case [the Charlemagne Prize], I Don't Say (i Was) Forced, But Convinced By The Holy And Theological Headstrongness Of Cardinal [walter] Kasper, Because He Was Chosen, Elected By Aachen To Convince Me. And I Said Yes, But In The Vatican. And I Said I Offer It For Europe, As A Co-decoration For Europe, A Prize So That Europe May Do What I Desired At Strasburg; That It May No Longer Be "grandmother Europe" But "mother Europe."

The Pope Appeals For Disinterested Solidarity And For A Return To Person-centred Ethics In The World Of Finance And Economics.