To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with 'the odor of the sheep.' This I ask you: Be shepherds, with the 'odor of the sheep,' make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men.

Christ is always faithful. Let us pray to be always faithful to him.

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

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.