Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.