I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.