Speech - To the Bishops of the United States of America on their ad Limina visit (January 19, 2012)
"The Church in the United States is called, in season and out of
season, to proclaim a Gospel which not only proposes unchanging moral
truths but proposes them precisely as the key to human happiness and
social prospering"
"When a culture attempts to suppress the dimension of ultimate
mystery, and to close the doors to transcendent truth, it inevitably
becomes impoverished and falls prey, as the late Pope John Paul II so clearly saw, to reductionist and totalitarian readings of the human person and the nature of society".
