Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.

Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.

May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy.

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much.