A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.

Patriarch Kirill. I would prefer - because if I say one thing, I have to say another and another and another. I would prefer that what we spoke about, us, alone, will remain only what we said in public.

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.