Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity.

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.