I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

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

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.