Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

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

Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.