Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all we see this in mankind Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task! Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.'

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

Do not be afraid to go forth and announce the Risen Christ.