"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty."

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The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.

— Pope Benedict XVI