Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given the premise, and this is fundamental, that the mercy of God is limitless for those who turn to him with a sincere and contrite heart, the issue for the unbeliever lies in obeying his or her conscience.

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.

Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind.