I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America.

To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.

Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.

The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

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.

I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!