I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.