I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

Let us protect with love all that God has given us!

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.