In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?