To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.

[Orthodox] are brothers, but I must respect them.

It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.