From the way children are treated society can be judged.

All of us are called to fight #‎ humantraffickin g and #‎ slavery .

Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.

The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!