God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.