Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and it changes the heart.

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].