The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams?

I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.