Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, for proselytizing is a caricature of evangelization, but rather evangelizing entails attracting by our witness those who are far off, it means humbly drawing near to those who feel distant from God in the Church, drawing near to those who feel judged and condemned outright by those who consider themselves to be perfect and pure.

If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.