China is a great nation that offers the world a great culture, so many good things. I love the Chinese people and I hope there is the possibility of having good relations. We're in contact, we talk, we are moving forward but for me, to have as a friend a great country like China, which has so much culture and has so much opportunity to do good, would be a joy.

I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.

We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.