I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.