A conversation with James Martin, S.J., who served as an adviser to the film.

The nativity seen should remind us of the marginalized, the pope said.

A child cannot be grasped, like an object. A child can only be caressed, which is to touch without possessing.

The pope is "bringing out into the very public setting of the papacy what any pastor does in his parish or diocese."

Ultimately, the jobs, the degrees, the nice houses, are all chaff in God’s eyes—they do not make us virtuous or worthy.

The pope appealed to Our Lady to teach people to care for others “without egoistic interests or hypocrisy.”