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

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

One day we will see our animals again in eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all God’s creatures.

Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.