Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.